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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... opinion and little published documentary material , such as letters and diaries . Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writer's death ...
... opinion and little published documentary material , such as letters and diaries . Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writer's death ...
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... opinions are given wide coverage in the first section . The present Introduction attempts to give an idea of the publication of Milton's work during 1632-1731 . The contemporary printing of his poetry and prose is related in some detail ...
... opinions are given wide coverage in the first section . The present Introduction attempts to give an idea of the publication of Milton's work during 1632-1731 . The contemporary printing of his poetry and prose is related in some detail ...
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... opinion , that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things , ought him selfe to bee a true Poem , that is , a composition , and patterne of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to ...
... opinion , that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things , ought him selfe to bee a true Poem , that is , a composition , and patterne of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to ...
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... opinions held by the critics of his views on divorce . One of the tributes was by Selvaggi , an Italian acquaintance whose first name we do not know . To John Milton . Greece , sound thy Homer's , Rome , thy Virgil's name , But ...
... opinions held by the critics of his views on divorce . One of the tributes was by Selvaggi , an Italian acquaintance whose first name we do not know . To John Milton . Greece , sound thy Homer's , Rome , thy Virgil's name , But ...
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... opinion is spent upon these , that incouragement I have already received . . . hath once more made me adventure into the World , presenting it with these ever - green , and not to be blasted Laurels . The Authors more peculiar ...
... opinion is spent upon these , that incouragement I have already received . . . hath once more made me adventure into the World , presenting it with these ever - green , and not to be blasted Laurels . The Authors more peculiar ...
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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