John Milton: The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1628-1731John T. Shawcross The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. |
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... nature of his immediate reading - public , and his response to these pressures . The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record of this early criticism . Clearly for many of the highly - productive and lengthily ...
... nature of his immediate reading - public , and his response to these pressures . The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record of this early criticism . Clearly for many of the highly - productive and lengthily ...
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... nature of tragedy 1671 ( ? ) 23 BUTLER on Milton early 1670s ( ? ) 24 LEIGH on the antiprelatical tracts 1673 25 MARVELL in defence of Milton 1673 MARVELL on Paradise Lost 1674 LEE on Paradise Lost 1674 ( ? ) 72 73 74 76 77 79 81 83 ...
... nature of tragedy 1671 ( ? ) 23 BUTLER on Milton early 1670s ( ? ) 24 LEIGH on the antiprelatical tracts 1673 25 MARVELL in defence of Milton 1673 MARVELL on Paradise Lost 1674 LEE on Paradise Lost 1674 ( ? ) 72 73 74 76 77 79 81 83 ...
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... nature from which to infer primary critical stands and issues ; some of these have continued as viable stands and issues in twentieth - century views . The definition of contemporary or near - contemporary for Milton , however , poses a ...
... nature from which to infer primary critical stands and issues ; some of these have continued as viable stands and issues in twentieth - century views . The definition of contemporary or near - contemporary for Milton , however , poses a ...
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... nature and dedic- ated to Christian virtue . Such interpretation would place his decision to be a poet in the middle of 1628 ; and much of the criticism of the early poetry and of the fulfilment of Milton's ideals with the production of ...
... nature and dedic- ated to Christian virtue . Such interpretation would place his decision to be a poet in the middle of 1628 ; and much of the criticism of the early poetry and of the fulfilment of Milton's ideals with the production of ...
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... nature . A passage from one of these answers , the anonymous The Censure of the Rota , is given ( No. 20 ) because of its comments on Milton's prose style . The fourth pamphlet , Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon , was attacked immediately ...
... nature . A passage from one of these answers , the anonymous The Censure of the Rota , is given ( No. 20 ) because of its comments on Milton's prose style . The fourth pamphlet , Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon , was attacked immediately ...
Contents
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Personal Statements and Contemporary Evaluations 16281674 | 35 |
Further Seventeenthcentury Comment 16751699 | 84 |
Eighteenthcentury Comment to Bentleys Edition of Paradise Lost 17001731 | 124 |
APPENDICES | 265 |
INDEX | 271 |
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