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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... literary tradition . The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little published documentary material , such as letters and diaries . Significant pieces ...
... literary tradition . The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little published documentary material , such as letters and diaries . Significant pieces ...
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... literary thought of individual readers of the period . Evidence of this 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 ...
... literary thought of individual readers of the period . Evidence of this 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 ...
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... literary ability 1638 ( ? ) WOTTON ON ' Comus ' 1638 7 Subject for poetic work 1638 40 41 43 44 8 Subject for poetic work 1639 9 Poetic plans 1642 10 The might of the pen 1642 45 46 52 II Of Education and the place of writing in its ...
... literary ability 1638 ( ? ) WOTTON ON ' Comus ' 1638 7 Subject for poetic work 1638 40 41 43 44 8 Subject for poetic work 1639 9 Poetic plans 1642 10 The might of the pen 1642 45 46 52 II Of Education and the place of writing in its ...
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... literary questions . When , however , allusions or citations or argument also suggest a critical position or point , they have been included . To sum up : the substance of this volume comes from the employment of Milton and his works as ...
... literary questions . When , however , allusions or citations or argument also suggest a critical position or point , they have been included . To sum up : the substance of this volume comes from the employment of Milton and his works as ...
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... literary masters are discussed or illustrated by excerpts from the works . Certainly his decision to win fame as a writer is significant for a full understanding of his accomplishment ; and his objectives allow us to compare his hopes ...
... literary masters are discussed or illustrated by excerpts from the works . Certainly his decision to win fame as a writer is significant for a full understanding of his accomplishment ; and his objectives allow us to compare his hopes ...
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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