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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... appear . In each volume the documents are headed by an Introduction , dis- cussing the material assembled and relating the early stages of the author's reception to what we have come to identify as the critical tradition . The volumes ...
... appear . In each volume the documents are headed by an Introduction , dis- cussing the material assembled and relating the early stages of the author's reception to what we have come to identify as the critical tradition . The volumes ...
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... appears . How- ever , the manuscript may have been first used well after the two ' drama- tic ' poems were written ( for both are transcripts ) , and as a result of Milton's decision to pursue poetry as a career . His intent may have ...
... appears . How- ever , the manuscript may have been first used well after the two ' drama- tic ' poems were written ( for both are transcripts ) , and as a result of Milton's decision to pursue poetry as a career . His intent may have ...
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... appears on the title - page of the Poems , hopes to protect such honesty : ' Baccare frontem / Cingite , ne vati ... appearing verbatim in his later works — have supplied critics with what they consider the essence of Milton's ...
... appears on the title - page of the Poems , hopes to protect such honesty : ' Baccare frontem / Cingite , ne vati ... appearing verbatim in his later works — have supplied critics with what they consider the essence of Milton's ...
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... appears here with the Curtain drawn ? What Milton ! are you come to see the sight ? Oh Image - breaker ! poor Knave ! had he sawn That which the fame of , made him crye out - right . He'ad taken counsel of Achitophell , Swung himself ...
... appears here with the Curtain drawn ? What Milton ! are you come to see the sight ? Oh Image - breaker ! poor Knave ! had he sawn That which the fame of , made him crye out - right . He'ad taken counsel of Achitophell , Swung himself ...
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... appears , for instance , in a couplet in A Guild - Hall Elegie , upon the Funerals of that Infernal Saint Iohn Bradshaw , president of the High Court of Iustice ( 1659 ) : His Justice was as blind as his friend Milton , Who slandered ...
... appears , for instance , in a couplet in A Guild - Hall Elegie , upon the Funerals of that Infernal Saint Iohn Bradshaw , president of the High Court of Iustice ( 1659 ) : His Justice was as blind as his friend Milton , Who slandered ...
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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