The Critical Response to John Milton's Paradise Lost

By: Miller, Timothy

Paradise Lost was recognized as a major epic poem soon after its publication in 1667. For more than three centuries, critics have been describing, interpreting, and evaluating it. Regardless of their approaches to changing literary values, they have generally accepted it as the prime example of the epic in English. As many critics have observed, the poem brought biblical, literary, cultural, social, scientific, and political elements into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313289263
• ISBN13: 9780313289262
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.4"