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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... hath tir'd my pen to give my severall friends satisfaction , and brought me to a necessitie of producing it to the publick view . . . . Perhaps it is this ' publick view ' to which Milton referred in his poem to his father when he wrote ...
... hath tir'd my pen to give my severall friends satisfaction , and brought me to a necessitie of producing it to the publick view . . . . Perhaps it is this ' publick view ' to which Milton referred in his poem to his father when he wrote ...
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... hath made me diligent to collect , and set forth such Peeces both in Prose and Vers , as may renew the wonted honour and esteem of our English tongue : and it's the worth of these both English and Latin Poems , not the flourish of any ...
... hath made me diligent to collect , and set forth such Peeces both in Prose and Vers , as may renew the wonted honour and esteem of our English tongue : and it's the worth of these both English and Latin Poems , not the flourish of any ...
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... hath once more made me adventure into the World , presenting it with these ever - green , and not to be blasted Laurels . The Authors more peculiar excellency in these studies , was too well known to conceal his Papers , or to keep me ...
... hath once more made me adventure into the World , presenting it with these ever - green , and not to be blasted Laurels . The Authors more peculiar excellency in these studies , was too well known to conceal his Papers , or to keep me ...
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... Divorsers , that would be quit of their wives for slight occasions ; and to maintaine this opinion , one hath published a Tractate of divorce , in which the bonds of marriage are let loose to inordinate II INTRODUCTION.
... Divorsers , that would be quit of their wives for slight occasions ; and to maintaine this opinion , one hath published a Tractate of divorce , in which the bonds of marriage are let loose to inordinate II INTRODUCTION.
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... hath pleaded for a full liberty for any man to put away his wife , when ever hee pleaseth , without any fault in her at all , but for any dislike or dyspathy of humour . . . . Mr Milton permits any man to put away his wife upon his meer ...
... hath pleaded for a full liberty for any man to put away his wife , when ever hee pleaseth , without any fault in her at all , but for any dislike or dyspathy of humour . . . . Mr Milton permits any man to put away his wife upon his meer ...
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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