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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... Milton's ideals with the production of Paradise Lost has been based on this interpretation ( cf. Nos . 29 and 50 ) . The present editor has challenged this view on the grounds that there is a strong difference between writing poetry ( as ...
... Milton's ideals with the production of Paradise Lost has been based on this interpretation ( cf. Nos . 29 and 50 ) . The present editor has challenged this view on the grounds that there is a strong difference between writing poetry ( as ...
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... Milton with Homer and Vergil was to afford the main theme of examination of Milton's sublimity and of Addison's remarks on Paradise Lost . Today Milton's indebtedness to these two epic poets is repeatedly assumed , but no full study of ...
... Milton with Homer and Vergil was to afford the main theme of examination of Milton's sublimity and of Addison's remarks on Paradise Lost . Today Milton's indebtedness to these two epic poets is repeatedly assumed , but no full study of ...
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... Paradise Lost ' and later ' Adam Unparadis'd ' . Some writing was accomplished , for Milton's nephew , Edward Phillips , tells us that he had seen certain lines of Satan's address to the sun in present Book IV in 1642 ( see No. 42 ) ...
... Paradise Lost ' and later ' Adam Unparadis'd ' . Some writing was accomplished , for Milton's nephew , Edward Phillips , tells us that he had seen certain lines of Satan's address to the sun in present Book IV in 1642 ( see No. 42 ) ...
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... Milton's beliefs ( frequently in Paradise Lost ) has obscured literary considerations for some — for example , John Peter in A Critique on Paradise Lost . Milton as a man of controversy in the prose tract was considered in a climate of ...
... Milton's beliefs ( frequently in Paradise Lost ) has obscured literary considerations for some — for example , John Peter in A Critique on Paradise Lost . Milton as a man of controversy in the prose tract was considered in a climate of ...
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... Milton's works in his lifetime ; it was immediately trans- lated into Dutch , and then into other languages including English in 1692. Milton's ... Paradise Lost and compiling De Doctrina Christiana . The earlier Accedence Commenc't Grammar , ...
... Milton's works in his lifetime ; it was immediately trans- lated into Dutch , and then into other languages including English in 1692. Milton's ... Paradise Lost and compiling De Doctrina Christiana . The earlier Accedence Commenc't Grammar , ...
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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