The Complete Critical Guide to John MiltonThere is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every year on literary survey and seventeenth century literature courses. Where many previous guides have dragged their way through Paradise Lost, Richard Bradford brings Milton to life with an overview of his life, contexts, work and the relationship between these, and of the main critical issues surrounding his work. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
c Religious and political contexts | 7 |
e Literary context | 15 |
g Europe | 22 |
i Marriage separation and the divorce tracts | 30 |
j The execution of the King and Milton in | 36 |
k The Restoration and Paradise Lost | 46 |
a Introduction | 57 |
d Tragic and epic poetry | 91 |
a Introduction | 131 |
c The Romantics | 137 |
d Victorian criticism | 143 |
e Modern criticism | 147 |
f Conclusions | 194 |
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