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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... Subject for poetic work 1638 40 41 43 44 8 Subject for poetic work 1639 9 Poetic plans 1642 10 The might of the pen 1642 45 46 52 II Of Education and the place of writing in its plan 1644 12 Aim of Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ...
... Subject for poetic work 1638 40 41 43 44 8 Subject for poetic work 1639 9 Poetic plans 1642 10 The might of the pen 1642 45 46 52 II Of Education and the place of writing in its plan 1644 12 Aim of Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ...
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... subject of much discussion from his own lifetime to the present . The appearance of his name in print before 1800 ( apart from his own works ) falls into four categories : allusions , incidental and non - critical ; argument , political ...
... subject of much discussion from his own lifetime to the present . The appearance of his name in print before 1800 ( apart from his own works ) falls into four categories : allusions , incidental and non - critical ; argument , political ...
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... subjects , and from longer essays or studies ( though extracts from the various lives and biographical notices are included only when critical judgement or information useful for evaluation is expressed ) . The very important criticism ...
... subjects , and from longer essays or studies ( though extracts from the various lives and biographical notices are included only when critical judgement or information useful for evaluation is expressed ) . The very important criticism ...
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... called " The Passion ' in the 1645 edition of his Poems : " This subject the Author finding to be above the yeers he had , when he wrote it , and nothing satisfi'd with what was begun , left it unfinisht ' . The poem on S INTRODUCTION.
... called " The Passion ' in the 1645 edition of his Poems : " This subject the Author finding to be above the yeers he had , when he wrote it , and nothing satisfi'd with what was begun , left it unfinisht ' . The poem on S INTRODUCTION.
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... subjects - these thoughts and quoted subjects frequently appearing verbatim in his later works — have supplied critics with what they consider the essence of Milton's achievements , intentions , and artistic sense . Prior to 1637/8 the ...
... subjects - these thoughts and quoted subjects frequently appearing verbatim in his later works — have supplied critics with what they consider the essence of Milton's achievements , intentions , and artistic sense . Prior to 1637/8 the ...
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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