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... critics have drawn freely on the discoveries of literary and intel- lectual history , so that most of the best Milton criticism today is both historical and formalist . It would be foolish for any critic to be ungrateful for the ...
... critics have drawn freely on the discoveries of literary and intel- lectual history , so that most of the best Milton criticism today is both historical and formalist . It would be foolish for any critic to be ungrateful for the ...
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... criticism as an act of reflection performed upon what has already been read , and of " reading " as a naive , unreflective , pre - critical activity . Yet , by separating reading from criticism , and then ignoring the for- mer , critics ...
... criticism as an act of reflection performed upon what has already been read , and of " reading " as a naive , unreflective , pre - critical activity . Yet , by separating reading from criticism , and then ignoring the for- mer , critics ...
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... criticism , perhaps because literary works have been thought of as vehicles for propositions . If the point of the ... criticism that does not try to relate meaning to pro- cess , what the poem says to what it does ( to a reader ) ...
... criticism , perhaps because literary works have been thought of as vehicles for propositions . If the point of the ... criticism that does not try to relate meaning to pro- cess , what the poem says to what it does ( to a reader ) ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton