Milton Criticism: Selections from Four CenturiesJames Thorpe Octagon Books, 1966 - 376 pages |
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... criticism . It might be presumed that the at- titudes of the critics toward Milton as a man and a thinker would have been altered by the discovery of a work which marked him as something of a religious radical . But there was in fact no ...
... criticism . It might be presumed that the at- titudes of the critics toward Milton as a man and a thinker would have been altered by the discovery of a work which marked him as something of a religious radical . But there was in fact no ...
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... critics , who had so little regard for his thought . But thought and expression occupied separate mansions . If the mansion of Milton's thought was considered a dilapidated house frequented only by ghosts , the mansion of his expression ...
... critics , who had so little regard for his thought . But thought and expression occupied separate mansions . If the mansion of Milton's thought was considered a dilapidated house frequented only by ghosts , the mansion of his expression ...
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... criticism of Milton , in which similar remarks constituted praise , or characterization , or lim- ited qualification . Artificiality , in the language of the earlier critics , was used as a characteristic ; now , having become a sin ...
... criticism of Milton , in which similar remarks constituted praise , or characterization , or lim- ited qualification . Artificiality , in the language of the earlier critics , was used as a characteristic ; now , having become a sin ...
Contents
Preface | 3 |
Joseph Addison six Spectator PAPERS ON Paradise Lost | 23 |
Jonathan Richardson EXPLANATORY NOTES AND REMARKS | 54 |
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