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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... readers of the period . Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the writer's historical situation , the nature of ... reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and ...
... readers of the period . Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the writer's historical situation , the nature of ... reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and ...
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... readers will find most significant in Milton criticism . Moreover , the lack of a bibliography for the years prior to 1800 encourages one to include as many of the eighteenth - century documents as possible . A terminus of 1731 has ...
... readers will find most significant in Milton criticism . Moreover , the lack of a bibliography for the years prior to 1800 encourages one to include as many of the eighteenth - century documents as possible . A terminus of 1731 has ...
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... reader yields con- temporary criticism of the poetry in the volume itself , and it is worth quoting despite its commercial intent : It is not any private respect of gain , Gentle Reader , ... but it is the love I have to our own ...
... reader yields con- temporary criticism of the poetry in the volume itself , and it is worth quoting despite its commercial intent : It is not any private respect of gain , Gentle Reader , ... but it is the love I have to our own ...
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... readers . It was appropriated as the source of Charles Blount's and William Denton's anti - licensing arguments in 1679 and 1681 , respectively . As the end of the Second Civil War came , and movements against the monarchy and for a ...
... readers . It was appropriated as the source of Charles Blount's and William Denton's anti - licensing arguments in 1679 and 1681 , respectively . As the end of the Second Civil War came , and movements against the monarchy and for a ...
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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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