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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... place within a literary tradition . The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little published documentary material , such as letters and diaries ...
... place within a literary tradition . The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little published documentary material , such as letters and diaries ...
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... place of writing in its plan 1644 12 Aim of Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 1644 53 56 13 SALSILLI On Milton 1645 57 14 MANSO on Milton 1645 58 16 His Poems 1647 IS DATI On Milton 1645 17 Writing activities in the 1640s 1654 18 The ...
... place of writing in its plan 1644 12 Aim of Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 1644 53 56 13 SALSILLI On Milton 1645 57 14 MANSO on Milton 1645 58 16 His Poems 1647 IS DATI On Milton 1645 17 Writing activities in the 1640s 1654 18 The ...
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... 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 Paradise Lost has been based on this interpretation ( cf. Nos . 29 and ...
... 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 Paradise Lost has been based on this interpretation ( cf. Nos . 29 and ...
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... places in the Bible which discuss marriage or the nullities of marriage , as Milton put it ; and Colasterion was written to refute the anonymous An Answer to a Book , Intituled , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce , or , A Plea for ...
... places in the Bible which discuss marriage or the nullities of marriage , as Milton put it ; and Colasterion was written to refute the anonymous An Answer to a Book , Intituled , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce , or , A Plea for ...
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... place amongst the Principal of our English Poets . He was Author ( not to mention his other Works , both in Latin and English , by which his Fame is sufficiently known to all the Learned of Europe ) of Two Heroick Poems , and a Tragedy ...
... place amongst the Principal of our English Poets . He was Author ( not to mention his other Works , both in Latin and English , by which his Fame is sufficiently known to all the Learned of Europe ) of Two Heroick Poems , and a Tragedy ...
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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Action Adam and Eve Addison admirable Aeneas Aeneid Allegory allusions ancient appear Aristotle Author Battel beautiful blank verse Book of Paradise Characters Charles Gildon Circumstances Creation criticism Death described Description Divine Dryden Earth edition Epic Poem Epick Episode Essay Extract from John Fable fame Fault Genius give Gods hath Heaven Hero Heroic Poem Homer Homer and Virgil Ideas Iliad Images Imagination Imitation infernal Invention John Dennis John Dryden John Milton Judgment kind Language Latin learned Leonard Welsted likewise literary Majesty Mankind Manner Milton's Poem Mind modern Nature noble Numbers observe Opinion Paradise Lost Paradise Regain'd particular Passage Passion Persons Place Poet Poetical Poetry printed proper prose Reader Religion Remarks represented rhyme Samson Agonistes Satan Scripture Sentiments shew shewn Sonnet 17 speak Spectator Speech Spirit Stile Subject sublime take Notice thing thou Thoughts tion Tragedy Translated Virgil wherein Words World writ writing