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From: Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry[In the following essay. Leavis dismisses Milton's poetry as puritanical and pedantic.] Milton's dislodgment, in the past decade, after his two centuries of predominance, was effected with remarkably little fuss. The...
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From: Milton's Eve[(essay date 1983) In this excerpt, Colley examines the scene in which Eve observes herself in the pool after her creation. Colley disputes interpretations that view Eve's actions as a narcissistic impulse, instead...
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From: Philological Quarterly[(essay date 1975) In the following essay, Miner contends that Dryden and Rymer owed much to each other's work, despite differences between them. Miner emphasizes Rymer's humanism and Dryden's sense of history.] I...
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From: South Atlantic Review[(essay date fall 2001) In the following essay, Sharp contends that the central concern of Frankenstein is how reading influences the novel's protagonists and shapes their creative work, and how reading impacts the...
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From: Coleridge's Miscellaneous Criticism[In the following excerpt, Coleridge praises the sublime simplicity of Paradise Lost.] If we divide the period from the accession of Elizabeth to the Protectorate of Cromwell into two unequal portions, the first ending...
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From: The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley[Shelley was a leading figure in the English Romantic movement. His Defence of Poetry (written in 1821 but not published until 1840), in which he investigated the relation of poetry to the history of civilization; is...
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From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900[(essay date autumn 1997) In the following essay, Brown analyzes the thematic complexities of Aurora Leigh within biblical and Miltonic frameworks.] Lord Illingworth. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman...
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From: Tennessee Philological Bulletin[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, McColgan examines echoes of John Milton's Paradise Lost in Hawthorne's novel.] While visiting Kenyon's studio in Rome in The Marble Faun, Miriam observes a grand, calm head...
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From: Literature East and West: Essays Presented to R. K. DasGupta[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Radice compares Dutt's The Slaying of Meghanada with John Milton's Paradise Lost.] Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-73) was not as great a poet as John Milton. As an Englishman,...
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From: Papers on Milton[(essay date 1969) In the following essay, Griffith briefly examines Joseph Warton's life and his brother's influence on his critical interpretation of Milton.] Joseph Warton (1722-1800) was the son of the Rev. Thomas...
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From: Of Paradise and Light: Essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in Honor of Alan Rudrum[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Leonard critiques previous scholarship regarding Milton’s allusions in Paradise Lost before offering his own views on the subject.] Milton’s allusions have provoked lively...
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From: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association[(essay date 1947) In the following essay, Murley offers an anatomy of the classical epic to assert that De rerum natura is primarily an epic, rather than a didactic, poem.] Since Gifanius’ literary genealogy in his...
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From: Texas Studies in Language and Literature[(essay date summer 1966) In the following essay, Evans studies Milton's extensive use of metaphors--including those about birth, life, nutrition, disease, medicine, death, commerce, war, light, and darkness--and...
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From: Stephen Duck, the Thresher-Poet[(essay date 1926) In the following excerpt from her detailed study of Duck, Davis presents an overview of the poet's life, his rise to fame, and the reception of his poetry up to the time he secured the patronage of...
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From: The University of Kansas City Review[(essay date 1960) In the following essay, Samuels offers a reading of Paradise Lost that treats the poem as an exemplary work of tragedy.] Between the tragic vision of defeat and the epic vision of victory lies the...
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From: Hebrew University Studies in Literature[(essay date spring 1974) In the following essay, Shaked discusses the imagery, structure, and rhythm in Bialik's poem "The Dead of the Desert," as well as its use of symbols and cyclical conception of time.] I The...
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From: Demetrio Aguilera-Malta and Social Justice: The Tertiary Phase of Epic Tradition in Latin American Literature[(essay date 1980) In the following excerpts, Rabassa studies the novels and plays of Aguilera Malta as representative works of what she calls the tertiary phase of the epic tradition, marked by a return to the spirit of...
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From: Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise[(essay date 2004) In this essay, Bérubé argues that Fish brought an end to the popularity of reader-response criticism with his diacritics journal review in 1981 of Wolfgang Iser's The Act of Reading (1978). After...
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From: Philological Quarterly[(essay date 1962) In the following essay, Williams focuses on the “pattern of imagery … established by pervasive reference to a wide variety of vessels” in The Rape of the Lock. Williams summarizes the long-standing...
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From: The Catholic World[Regarded as one of England's premier men of letters during the first half of the twentieth century, Chesterton is best known today as a colorful bon vivant, a witty essayist, and as the creator of the Father Brown...