Product Description: More often than not, critics have looked upon Milton's great epic not as a literary work but rather as a theological tract or a display of Renaissance learning. In this book John Shawcross seeks to redress that critical imbalance by examining the poem for its literary values...read more

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

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Vol. 1: 'This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the importanceof these issues'--Provided by publisher.Vol. 2: 'Essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences in text, context, and effect of the first edition of Paradise lost (1667) from the now standard second edition (1674), examining in particular the original text's relationship to theliterary and theological world it entered in 1667 and thus offering interesting correctives to our understanding of Milton's thought'--Provided by publisher.

Vol. 1: 'This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton's Paradise lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the importanceof these issues'--Provided by publisher.Vol. 2: 'Essays by ten Miltonists establish the significant differences in text, context, and effect of the first edition of Paradise lost (1667) from the now standard second edition (1674), examining in particular the original text's relationship to theliterary and theological world it entered in 1667 and thus offering interesting correctives to our understanding of Milton's thought'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This study looks at two opposite problems that face literary criticism. Scholarship of the past has frequently been iterated in the present without analyzing or corroborating interpretations or supposed "facts." Scholarship of the present may, therefore, rest on an unacceptable or erroneous basis...read more

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Product Description: The facts of John Milton's life are well documented, but what of the person Milton―the man whose poetic and prose works have been deeply influential and are still the subject of opposing readings? John Shawcross's "different" biography depicts the man against a psychological backdrop that brings into relief who he was―in his works and from his works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shawcross proposes that the many ambiguities surrounding Milton's dramatic poem Samson Agonistes are intentional: the actual words, the dates of composition, the genre, and the characters - particularly Samson and Dalila but including Manoa, Harapha, and the Chorus...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on 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...read more

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

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Product Description: Intentionality and the New Traditionalism argues that both the text and the author of a literary work are important to a cogent and full reading of that work. The author creates the text, which then leads the reader into a reading of it through its various elements or literary devices that have been consciously employed by the author...read more

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Product Description: In this survey one may discover Milton as he saw himself and come to recapture some of his originality. The selections from A Milton Encyclopedia in this volume were written by experts in each subject.

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