Critical Essays On John Milton
Download Critical Essays On John Milton full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Critical Essays On John Milton ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
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.
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 | : Barbara K. Lewalski |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470776846 |
Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. Provides a close analysis of each of Milton's prose and poetry works. Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciously construct himself as an 'author'. Focuses on the development of Milton's ideas and his art.
Author | : Thom Satterlee |
Publisher | : Slant |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2020-01-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1725252007 |
The year is 1665. England is in the midst of the Restoration, and John Milton, a blind, politically and religiously marginalized writer associated with Oliver Cromwell's failed attempt to form a republic, has not yet published Paradise Lost. When one of the worst plagues in history descends upon London, he and his much younger wife are forced to flee to the countryside. There Milton is befriended by the local curate, Rev. Theodore Wesson, who knows nothing about Milton's controversial past or the dangers of associating with him. Soon their fates become intertwined when the curate's hopes for advancement are threatened by his relationship to the notorious traitor and "king-killer," John Milton. The situation tests Wesson's loyalty--to the monarchy, to friendship, to a church career--while complicating his already blurry sense of God's involvement in human affairs. For Milton, the cost is potentially even greater: the target of assassination attempts since the restoration of the monarchy five years earlier, he has real reason to fear for his life. A riveting and briskly paced novel that transports the reader to a very particular place and time even as its themes resonate with our own time, Thom Satterlee's God's Liar will take its place next to works as varied as Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Colm Toibin's The Master.
Author | : Annabel M. Patterson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317900197 |
This collection of selected writings represents the best of recent critical work on Milton. The essays cover all stages of his career, from the early poems through to the later poems of the Restoration period, especially Paradise Lost. Professor Patterson includes British and American critics such as Michael Wilding, Victoria Kahn, James Grantham Turner and Mary Ann Radzinowicz and guides the reader through the varied ways Milton's achievement has been explored and debated by modern criticism.
Author | : Louis Lohr Martz |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Critical essays about John Milton and his works.
Author | : John Milton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1711 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Lieb |
Publisher | : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stanley Eugene Fish |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674004658 |
Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement begun in that work culminates in this book, the magnum opus of a formidable critic and the definitive statement on Milton for our time. How Milton works "from the inside out" is the foremost concern of Fish's book, which explores the radical effect of Milton's theological convictions on his poetry and prose. For Milton the value of a poem or of any other production derives from the inner worth of its author and not from any external measure of excellence or heroism. Milton's aesthetic, says Fish, is an "aesthetic of testimony": every action, whether verbal or physical, is or should be the action of holding fast to a single saving commitment against the allure of plot, narrative, representation, signs, drama--anything that might be construed as an illegitimate supplement to divine truth. Much of the energy of Milton's writing, according to Fish, comes from the effort to maintain his faith against these temptations, temptations which in any other aesthetic would be seen as the very essence of poetic value. Encountering the great poet on his own terms, engaging his equally distinguished admirers and detractors, this book moves a 300-year debate about the significance of Milton's verse to a new level.