John Milton : The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1732-1801

ISBN-13: 9780415134217 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 452 str.

Dawn Shawcross; John T. Shawcross

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These volumes gather together a body of critical sources on the major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

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Introduction; 1: Period of Textual and Religious Criticism; 1: Bentley's Emendations to Paradise Lost; 2: Anonymous Reactions to Bentley's Beliefs; 3: Anonymous Criticism of Bentley; 4: Richardson Jr on an Emendation for Paradise Lost; 5: Meadowcourt on Paradise Regain'd; 6: Theobald on Bentley; 7: Pearce on Bentley's Emendations; 8: Richardson on Milton's Religious Beliefs and Paradise Lost; 9: Jortin on Paradise Regain'd; 10: Warburton on Milton and Toland's ‘Life'; 11: Anonymous Charge of Arianism; 12: Anonymous Comment on Charge of Arianism; 13: Anonymous Reaction to Charge of Arianism; 14: Warburton on Epic; 15: Anonymous Rebuttal Restating Arian Charges; 16: Benson on Milton's Verse; 17: Warburton in Refutation of Bentley; 18: Peck on Milton's Style; 19: Davies' ‘Rhapsody to Milton'; 2: Period of Alleged Plagiarism, Some Analysis, Praise, and Dispraise; 20: Anonymous Analysis of Milton's Imitations of the Classics; 21: Manwaring on Milton's Verse; 22: Harris on Milton's Versification; 23: Paterson on Paradise Lost; 24: Ramsay and Pope on Paradise Lost; 25: Le Blanc on the Majesty of Nature in Paradise Lost; 26: Lauder's First Charges of Plagiarism; 27: Richardson Against Lauder's Allegations; 28: Lauder's Rebuttal; 29: Anonymous Poem on Attempted Depreciation of Milton; 30: Hurd on Milton's Language; 31: John Mason on the Verse of Paradise Lost; 32: John Mason on Milton's Versification; 33: Newton's Notes to Paradise Lost; 34: Johnson on ‘Comus'; 35: Johnson's Preface to the Revision of Lauder's Charges; 36: Lauder's Revised Charges of Plagiarism; 37: Douglas's Vindication of Plagiarism; 38: Johnson's Rebuttal Against Douglas; 39: Lauder's Remarks on Douglas's Vindication; 40: Anonymous Comment on Bentley; 41: Hurd on Milton's Invention; 42: Johnson on Milton's Versification; 43: Johnson on Samson Agonistes; 3: Period of Defence and Analysis; 44: Baretti on Voltaire's ‘Essay'; 45: William Mason on Samson Agonistes; 46: Joseph Warton on Milton's Defects; 47: Shenstone on ‘Lycidas'; 48: Joseph Warton on the ‘Nativity Ode'; 49: William Mason on Milton's Achievement; 50: Burke on Milton's Sublimity; 51: Hume on Milton; 52: Wilkie on Epic Poetry; 53: Blair on the Sublime, the Twin Poems, and Paradise Lost; 54: Lyttelton on Milton; 55: Gray on Milton's Prosody; 56: Gibbon on the Relationship of Religion; 57: Kames on Rhyme and Blank Verse; 58: Webb on Imagery; 59: Hurd on Romance in Milton's Works; 60: Evans on Milton's Literary Use of the Psalms; 4: Period of Praise and Some Detraction; 61: Monboddo on Milton's Greatness of Language; 62: Beattie on Milton's Learning; 63: Richardson on the Companion Poems; 64: Johnson on Cowley and Milton; 65: Johnson on Philips and Milton; 66: Johnson on Milton's Life and Works; 67: Blackburne on Milton's Political Principles; 68: Hayley on Milton's Epic; 69: Thomas Warton on the Minor Poems; 70: Scott on ‘Lycidas'; 71: Cumberland on Samson Agonistes; 72: White on Analogues to Paradise Lost; 73: White on the Sonnets; 74: Hawkins on Johnson's Criticism of Milton; 75: Mickle on Samson Agonistes; 76: Neve on Milton and the Poems; 77: Cowper on Milton's Disinterment; 78: Burney on Milton's Greek; 79: Cowper's Notes on Paradise Lost; 80: Godwin on Satan; 81: Dunster's Notes on Paradise Regain'd; 82: Hayley on the Last Poems; 83: Hayley on the Origin of Paradise Lost; 84: Anonymous Discussion of Milton's Similes; 85: Godwin on Milton's Prose Style; 86: Todd on ‘Comus'; 87: Penn on Samson Agonistes; 88: Green on the Three Major Poems; 89: Dunster on Milton's Use of Du Bartas; 90: Todd on Various Poems; 91: Boyd on the Fallen Angels

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John T. Shawcross