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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... Prose and Vers , as may renew the wonted honour and esteem of our English tongue : and it's the worth of these both English and Latin Poems , not the flourish of any prefixed encomions that can invite thee to buy them , though these are ...
... Prose and Vers , as may renew the wonted honour and esteem of our English tongue : and it's the worth of these both English and Latin Poems , not the flourish of any prefixed encomions that can invite thee to buy them , though these are ...
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... the Trinity MS . various prose outlines for dramas and subjects for literary works drawn from the Bible , British history , and Scottish history . Amongst these plans were drafts for a drama ( at first a morality 9 INTRODUCTION.
... the Trinity MS . various prose outlines for dramas and subjects for literary works drawn from the Bible , British history , and Scottish history . Amongst these plans were drafts for a drama ( at first a morality 9 INTRODUCTION.
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... prose interlude was less planned and philosophical than Milton's later comments would lead one to believe . For the more con- temporary aims of his prose works , see Nos . 11 , 12 , 18 , and 19. These suggest didactic purpose , though ...
... prose interlude was less planned and philosophical than Milton's later comments would lead one to believe . For the more con- temporary aims of his prose works , see Nos . 11 , 12 , 18 , and 19. These suggest didactic purpose , though ...
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... prose tract was considered in a climate of dissent and vituperation which has continued up to the present time . Of Education and Areopagitica are alluded to only seldom , the former not until 1670. Milton's plea against censorship ...
... prose tract was considered in a climate of dissent and vituperation which has continued up to the present time . Of Education and Areopagitica are alluded to only seldom , the former not until 1670. Milton's plea against censorship ...
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... prose style . The fourth pamphlet , Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon , was attacked immediately by Sir Roger LeStrange in No Blinde Guides . With the Restoration came a general cessation of controversy : Milton had retired to Jewin Street ...
... prose style . The fourth pamphlet , Brief Notes Upon a Late Sermon , was attacked immediately by Sir Roger LeStrange in No Blinde Guides . With the Restoration came a general cessation of controversy : Milton had retired to Jewin Street ...
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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