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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... access and it is hoped that the modern reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and judged . B.C.S. Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTE ON THE TEXT page x xi I V.
... access and it is hoped that the modern reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and judged . B.C.S. Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTE ON THE TEXT page x xi I V.
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... modern genera- tion , with its existential tendencies , has found in Paradise Lost profound and lasting meaning , for it has looked at the poem rather than at the man . In short , Milton's critical heritage in the years up to 1731 ...
... modern genera- tion , with its existential tendencies , has found in Paradise Lost profound and lasting meaning , for it has looked at the poem rather than at the man . In short , Milton's critical heritage in the years up to 1731 ...
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... Modern critics , however , have taken him at his word and argued for fulfilment of his high ideals through the publication of the prose . The argument in the Second Defense that the anti - prelatical tracts constitute an attack on ...
... Modern critics , however , have taken him at his word and argued for fulfilment of his high ideals through the publication of the prose . The argument in the Second Defense that the anti - prelatical tracts constitute an attack on ...
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... modern readers . It was appropriated as the source of Charles Blount's and William Denton's anti - licensing arguments in 1679 and 1681 , respectively . As the end of the Second Civil War came , and movements against the monarchy and ...
... modern readers . It was appropriated as the source of Charles Blount's and William Denton's anti - licensing arguments in 1679 and 1681 , respectively . As the end of the Second Civil War came , and movements against the monarchy and ...
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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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