The Critical Response To John Miltons Paradise Lost
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Author | : Timothy Miller |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1997-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Paradise Lost was recognized as a major epic poem soon after its publication in 1667. For more than three centuries, critics have been describing, interpreting, and evaluating it. Regardless of their approaches to changing literary values, they have generally accepted it as the prime example of the epic in English. As many critics have observed, the poem brought biblical, literary, cultural, social, scientific, and political elements into such aesthetic harmony that even its detractors have been forced to recognize its greatness. And because of its complexity, it has become a test case in literary studies as a focal point for changing critical assumptions and literary values. This reference book traces the critical reception of Paradise Lost from the 17th century to the present. The volume is organized in chapters devoted to particular centuries, with each chapter presenting a selection of reviews and critical essays from that period. Thus the reader is able to chart the changing response to ^IParadise Lost^R over time. An introductory essay summarizes the reception of Milton's work, and a bibliography lists important sources of additional information. The volume is organized in chapters devoted to particular centuries. Each chapter then presents a selection of reviews and critical essays from that period. Thus the reader is able to read the 17th-century responses of Samuel Barrow, John Dryden, and Joseph Addison; the 18th-century reactions of Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, and William Blake; the 19th-century reactions of British Romantic and Victorian poets; and the 20th-century contributions of major scholars such as E.M.W. Tillyard, Stanley Fish, Louis Martz, and Northrop Frye. The volume closes with a sampling of Milton's own comments about Paradise Lost and the epic, and a selected bibliography of major editions, reference works, and critical studies.
Author | : Robert C. Evans |
Publisher | : Salem Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
ISBN | : 9781642650242 |
Provides a collection of critical essays on John Milton's Paradise lost.
Author | : Margaret Kean |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317797086 |
John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness. Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook: * outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost * completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period * examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism * reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or significant terms used in Milton's work * provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the text * suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of critical work on the poem. With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource for anyone new to Paradise Lost.
Author | : Michael Cavanagh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813232465 |
"The author provides a book-by-book examination of Paradise Lost for the first-time reader, highlighting the important features of Milton's epic style"--
Author | : Tzachi Zamir |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0190695080 |
At the base camp - imagining -- First climb - wisdom -- First crossroad - knowledge -- Second climb - meaningful action -- Second crossroad - purchase -- Third climb - meaningless action -- Third crossroad - place -- Fourth climb - receiving -- Fourth crossroad - needs -- Fifth climb - gratitude -- Fifth crossroad - sin -- At the summit
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1711 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Chelsea House |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fall of man in literature. |
ISBN | : 9780877544210 |
A collection of critical essays on Milton's epic poem about the creation and the fall of Adam and Eve, arranged in chronological order
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1081 |
Release | : 2003-07-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1624665853 |
First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2021-01-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Paradise Lost remains as challenging and relevant today as it was in the turbulent intellectual and political environment in which it was written. This edition aims to bring the poem as fully alive to a modern reader as it would have been to Milton's contemporaries. It provides a newly edited text of the 1674 edition of the poem-the last of Milton's lifetime-with carefully modernized spelling and punctuation.
Author | : Christopher Kendrick |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Traditionally, Milton is one of the three great writers, along with Shakespeare and Chaucer, in British literature. His major work, Paradise Lost is considered the greatest epic poem in the English language. Christopher Kendrick's introduction traces both the passion and polemics of Milton criticism throughout history. This volume contains original essays by Carl Freedman, Victoria Silver, William Flesch and John Guillory.