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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... number of longer essays or studies devoted exclusively to Milton are few , and the bulk of material falls into the category of illustration or brief statement . However , the material available does allow a view of Milton's reception ...
... number of longer essays or studies devoted exclusively to Milton are few , and the bulk of material falls into the category of illustration or brief statement . However , the material available does allow a view of Milton's reception ...
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... number of books , listed in Appendix B , supply references to poetry directly reflecting Milton's influence in thought , poetic form , allusion , or imitation ( see the works of Richmond P. Bond , John W. Good , Raymond D. Havens , and ...
... number of books , listed in Appendix B , supply references to poetry directly reflecting Milton's influence in thought , poetic form , allusion , or imitation ( see the works of Richmond P. Bond , John W. Good , Raymond D. Havens , and ...
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... number appearing in 1660.13 Shortly before his death Milton was beginning to be viewed by the Whigs and disgruntled republicans as the representative of a lost cause , and it was largely through the poetry that his growing audience came ...
... number appearing in 1660.13 Shortly before his death Milton was beginning to be viewed by the Whigs and disgruntled republicans as the representative of a lost cause , and it was largely through the poetry that his growing audience came ...
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... number of individual poems . Thus Milton was not so much a ' general ' poet as a great and sublime one . The comment , it should be noted , indicates a knowledge of the minor poems , which , though consideration of them lags for the ...
... number of individual poems . Thus Milton was not so much a ' general ' poet as a great and sublime one . The comment , it should be noted , indicates a knowledge of the minor poems , which , though consideration of them lags for the ...
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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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