John Milton. Volume 1, 1628-1731 : the critical heritage / edited by John T. Shawcross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shawcross, John T.

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The Critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.

Milton, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1970.

Summary:

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover ; JOHN MILTON: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE VOLUME 1, 1628-1731; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; NOTE ON THE TEXT ; INTRODUCTION ; Personal Statements and Contemporary Evaluations (1628-1674) ; 1 Early writing preferences 1628 ; 2 The sacred poet 1629 ; 3 Translation of Psalm 114 into Greek 1634 ; 4 Hope for immortality 1637 ; 5 Faith in literary ability 1638 (?) ; 6 WOTTON on 'Comus' 1638; 7 Subject for poetic work 1638 ; 8 Subject for poetic work 1639 ; 9 Poetic plans 1642 ; 10 The might of the pen 1642

11 Of Education and the place of writing in its plan 164412 Aim of Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce 1644 ; 13 SALSILLI on Milton 1645 ; 14 MANSO on Milton 1645 ; 15 DATI on Milton 1645 ; 16 His Poems 1647 ; 17 Writing activities in the 1640s 1654; 18 The First Defense 1658 ; 19 Aim in De Doctrina Christiana before 1660 (?); 20 Anonymous attack on The Readie and Easie Way 1660; 21 Verse of Paradise Lost 1668 ; 22 The nature of tragedy 1671 (?) ; 23 BUTLER on Milton early 1670s (?); 24 LEIGH on the antiprelatical tracts 1673 ; 25 MARVELL in defence of Milton 1673

26 MARVELL on Paradise Lost 1674 27 LEE on Paradise Lost 1674 (?) ; Further Seventeenth-century Comment (1675-1699) ; 28 PHILLIPS'S notice of his uncle 1675; 29 ELLWOOD'S 'Epitaph on Milton' 1675 (?); 30 AUBREY'S notes for a Life late 1670s; 31 F[RANCIS] C[RADDOCK] on Paradise Lost 1680 ; 32 PETTIT on Milton's advancement of papal aims 1680 ; 33 ROSCOMMON on Paradise Lost 1685 ; 34 DRYDEN on Paradise Lost 1685 ; 35 SKINNER on Milton 1686 (?) ; 36 WINSTANLEY'S notice 1687; 37 DRYDEN'S 'Epigram' 1688; 38 Comment on Milton, Athenian Mercury 1692 ; 39 DENNIS on rhyme 1692

40 PRESTON on Milton's fame 1693 (?) 41 DRYDEN on Paradise Lost 1693 ; 42 PHILLIPS on various works 1694 ; 43 ADDISON on Paradise Lost 1694 ; 44 GILDON'S vindication of Paradise Lost 1694; 45 HUME'S annotations of Paradise Lost 1695 ; 46 DENNIS on Milton's Devils 1696 ; 47 WESLEY on heroic poetry 1697 ; 48 BAYLE'S notice 1697; 49 LESLIE on Milton's theology 1698 ; 50 TOLAND on various poems 1698 ; 51 YALDEN on Milton's prose 1698 ; Eighteenth-century Comment to Bentley's Edition of Paradise Lost (1700-1731) ; 52 OLDYS on Milton 1700 ; 53 DENNIS on Milton's sublimity 1701

54 DENNIS on Paradise Lost 1704 55 TRUMBULL on minor poems 1705 ; 56 DEFOE on Paradise Lost 1706 ; 57 WATTS'S tribute to Milton 1706; 58 SWIFT on Milton's divorce tracts 1708; 59 ADDISON and STEELE on Paradise Lost, Tatler 1709 ; 60 Anonymous statement of Milton's sublimity 1709 ; 61 SHAFTESBURY on heroic poetry 1710 ; 62 DEFOE on the two epics 1711 ; 63 ADDISON'S papers on Paradise Lost, Spectator 1712; 64 ADDISON on imagination and Paradise Lost, Spectator 1712 ; 65 WELSTED on Milton's sublimity 1712 ; 66 ELLWOOD on the composition of the epics 1714 ; 67 EUSDEN on reading Addison 1714

68 HUGHES on the allegory of sin and death 1715

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography: pages 265-269.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-415-56884-6

0-203-70805-9

1-135-03525-3

1-135-03526-1

9780203708057

OCLC:

862609641