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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... influence in thought , poetic form , allusion , or imitation ( see the works of Richmond P. Bond , John W. Good , Raymond D. Havens , and George Sherburn ) . Much of the argument surrounding Milton concerns his political treatises and ...
... influence in thought , poetic form , allusion , or imitation ( see the works of Richmond P. Bond , John W. Good , Raymond D. Havens , and George Sherburn ) . Much of the argument surrounding Milton concerns his political treatises and ...
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... influenced by such evaluation of the man , his personal statements of his aims and beliefs , and ( on the one hand ) by his involvement in contemporary issues and ( on the other ) by the didacticism of his work ( poetry included ) and ...
... influenced by such evaluation of the man , his personal statements of his aims and beliefs , and ( on the one hand ) by his involvement in contemporary issues and ( on the other ) by the didacticism of his work ( poetry included ) and ...
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... influences . The influence of Spenser and his followers can be seen in Milton's first thoughts ; but the inadequacies of the subject must have become increasingly apparent as the prelatical arguments grew and the Civil War became more ...
... influences . The influence of Spenser and his followers can be seen in Milton's first thoughts ; but the inadequacies of the subject must have become increasingly apparent as the prelatical arguments grew and the Civil War became more ...
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... influenced the analysis of Milton's poetry during this period , and more strongly in the next . Such analysis labelled Milton the most supreme and sublime poet England ever produced . On the Continent Milton's reputation as an advocate ...
... influenced the analysis of Milton's poetry during this period , and more strongly in the next . Such analysis labelled Milton the most supreme and sublime poet England ever produced . On the Continent Milton's reputation as an advocate ...
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... influenced by it , as Sir Richard Blackmore was in Prince Arthur . The vogue of writing ' Miltonicks ' , and even of pillaging his lines , was to hit its peak in the next century ( see the discussions of Bond and Havens ) , but it had ...
... influenced by it , as Sir Richard Blackmore was in Prince Arthur . The vogue of writing ' Miltonicks ' , and even of pillaging his lines , was to hit its peak in the next century ( see the discussions of Bond and Havens ) , but it had ...
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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