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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... century writers , there exists an enormous body of material ; and in these cases the volume editors have made a selection of the most important views , significant for their intrinsic critical worth or for their representative quality ...
... century writers , there exists an enormous body of material ; and in these cases the volume editors have made a selection of the most important views , significant for their intrinsic critical worth or for their representative quality ...
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... antiprelatical tracts 1673 25 MARVELL in defence of Milton 1673 MARVELL on Paradise Lost 1674 LEE on Paradise Lost 1674 ( ? ) 72 73 74 76 77 79 81 83 Further Seventeenth - century Comment ( 1675-1699 ) 28 PHILLIPS's vii Table of Contents.
... antiprelatical tracts 1673 25 MARVELL in defence of Milton 1673 MARVELL on Paradise Lost 1674 LEE on Paradise Lost 1674 ( ? ) 72 73 74 76 77 79 81 83 Further Seventeenth - century Comment ( 1675-1699 ) 28 PHILLIPS's vii Table of Contents.
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... century Comment ( 1675-1699 ) 28 PHILLIPS's notice of his uncle 1675 page 84 29 ELLWOOD'S ' Epitaph on Milton ' 1675 ( ? ) 85 30 AUBREY'S notes for a Life late 1670s 88 31 FRANCIS ] C [ RADDOCK ] on Paradise Lost 1680 89 32 PETTIT on ...
... century Comment ( 1675-1699 ) 28 PHILLIPS's notice of his uncle 1675 page 84 29 ELLWOOD'S ' Epitaph on Milton ' 1675 ( ? ) 85 30 AUBREY'S notes for a Life late 1670s 88 31 FRANCIS ] C [ RADDOCK ] on Paradise Lost 1680 89 32 PETTIT on ...
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... century views . The definition of contemporary or near - contemporary for Milton , however , poses a problem . His death apparently on Sunday , 8 November 1674 , suggests a terminal date around 1700 for this survey ; but the period ...
... century views . The definition of contemporary or near - contemporary for Milton , however , poses a problem . His death apparently on Sunday , 8 November 1674 , suggests a terminal date around 1700 for this survey ; but the period ...
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... century view that the language is not strongly Latinate was not current in former times . Discussion of the verse of Paradise Lost , originating with Milton's preliminary statement to the poem , has been constant since the seventeenth ...
... century view that the language is not strongly Latinate was not current in former times . Discussion of the verse of Paradise Lost , originating with Milton's preliminary statement to the poem , has been constant since the seventeenth ...
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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