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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... give an idea of the publication of Milton's work during 1632-1731 . The contemporary printing of his poetry and prose is related in some detail because of its interest to students of Milton and its relationship to the kind of reception ...
... give an idea of the publication of Milton's work during 1632-1731 . The contemporary printing of his poetry and prose is related in some detail because of its interest to students of Milton and its relationship to the kind of reception ...
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... give additional evidence that this decision about his life had been made only shortly before . That Milton had faith in his ability as a poet is evident from his statement - written for private ears -- in ' Ad Patrem ' ( No. 5 ) , which ...
... give additional evidence that this decision about his life had been made only shortly before . That Milton had faith in his ability as a poet is evident from his statement - written for private ears -- in ' Ad Patrem ' ( No. 5 ) , which ...
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... give no indication of the author . In 1637 ( or perhaps the very beginning of 1638 ) ' A Maske ' was published anonymously , with a letter from Lawes , who had played Thyrsis , to John , Lord Viscount Braclay , son of the Earl of ...
... give no indication of the author . In 1637 ( or perhaps the very beginning of 1638 ) ' A Maske ' was published anonymously , with a letter from Lawes , who had played Thyrsis , to John , Lord Viscount Braclay , son of the Earl of ...
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... give the impression that these were new editions . Apparently to aid the unfit audience and increase the sales , prose arguments ( which do not entirely agree with the finished poem ) were added in 1668. There are two dif- ferent title ...
... give the impression that these were new editions . Apparently to aid the unfit audience and increase the sales , prose arguments ( which do not entirely agree with the finished poem ) were added in 1668. There are two dif- ferent title ...
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... give him a place amongst the Principal of our English Poets . He was Author ( not to mention his other Works , both in Latin and English , by which his Fame is sufficiently known to all the Learned of Europe ) of Two Heroick Poems , and ...
... give him a place amongst the Principal of our English Poets . He was Author ( not to mention his other Works , both in Latin and English , by which his Fame is sufficiently known to all the Learned of Europe ) of Two Heroick Poems , and ...
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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