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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... kind helps us to understand the writer's historical situation , the nature of his immediate reading - public , and his response to these pressures . The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record of this early ...
... kind helps us to understand the writer's historical situation , the nature of his immediate reading - public , and his response to these pressures . The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record of this early ...
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... kind of reception available to Milton in his lifetime . In 1688 , fourteen years after Milton's death , the fourth edition of Paradise Lost was issued , sponsored by Lord Somers , with the first illustrations of the epic by John ...
... kind of reception available to Milton in his lifetime . In 1688 , fourteen years after Milton's death , the fourth edition of Paradise Lost was issued , sponsored by Lord Somers , with the first illustrations of the epic by John ...
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... kind of incompatibility with fugitive work— unserious , undirected , facile . Here lies the foundation for his work , prose as well as Paradise Lost , according to modern critics , and a main avenue into his use of narrative voice in ...
... kind of incompatibility with fugitive work— unserious , undirected , facile . Here lies the foundation for his work , prose as well as Paradise Lost , according to modern critics , and a main avenue into his use of narrative voice in ...
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... kind of sequel to the ' Nativity Ode ' ; perhaps Milton published what is actually only a proem to the main poem because it was a complete unit ( whatever was attempted of the main poem being destroyed ) and because he wished to present ...
... kind of sequel to the ' Nativity Ode ' ; perhaps Milton published what is actually only a proem to the main poem because it was a complete unit ( whatever was attempted of the main poem being destroyed ) and because he wished to present ...
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... kind of evaluation : An eulogium on Knolles's History of the Turks , and a severe censure of the ' Samson Agonistes , ' of Milton are the only critical essays there [ in The Rambler ] to be found ; to the latter he seems to have been ...
... kind of evaluation : An eulogium on Knolles's History of the Turks , and a severe censure of the ' Samson Agonistes , ' of Milton are the only critical essays there [ in The Rambler ] to be found ; to the latter he seems to have been ...
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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