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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... religious , political , and social issues deterred Milton from steady pursuit of his poetical writing . The derision that some of his work evoked ( as he recorded in the sonnet beginning ' I did but prompt the age ' ) and the ...
... religious , political , and social issues deterred Milton from steady pursuit of his poetical writing . The derision that some of his work evoked ( as he recorded in the sonnet beginning ' I did but prompt the age ' ) and the ...
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... religious enslavement , that the divorce tracts fight for domestic freedom and Of Education and Areopagitica for other aspects of social freedom , and that the pamphlets of 1649-51 complete a scheme by arguing for political freedom , is ...
... religious enslavement , that the divorce tracts fight for domestic freedom and Of Education and Areopagitica for other aspects of social freedom , and that the pamphlets of 1649-51 complete a scheme by arguing for political freedom , is ...
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... Religion , Leigh attacked Paradise Lost and Milton's use of blank verse ( see No. 24 ) . Primarily Leigh opposed Milton's political and religious views , but his strategy was to demean the man and to lampoon the verse and imagery of the ...
... Religion , Leigh attacked Paradise Lost and Milton's use of blank verse ( see No. 24 ) . Primarily Leigh opposed Milton's political and religious views , but his strategy was to demean the man and to lampoon the verse and imagery of the ...
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... , apparently , who wished religious sententiousness in their verse , for Quarles was held to be superior for his thought . Milton's fame is recorded by William Preston ( No. 40 ) , who echoes the epic itself. 18 INTRODUCTION.
... , apparently , who wished religious sententiousness in their verse , for Quarles was held to be superior for his thought . Milton's fame is recorded by William Preston ( No. 40 ) , who echoes the epic itself. 18 INTRODUCTION.
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... religion presented therein . It is clear that the fiction has been treated as Milton's vision of religious ' truth 19 INTRODUCTION.
... religion presented therein . It is clear that the fiction has been treated as Milton's vision of religious ' truth 19 INTRODUCTION.
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