ABSTRACT

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 student and researcher to read the material themselves.

chapter |34 pages

Introduction

part |49 pages

Personal Statements and Contemporary Evaluations

chapter 1|1 pages

Early writing preferences

1628

chapter 3|1 pages

Translation of Psalm 114 into Greek

1634

chapter 4|1 pages

Hope for immortality

1637

chapter 5|2 pages

Faith in literary ability

1638(?)

chapter 6|1 pages

Wotton on ‘Comus'

1638

chapter 7|1 pages

Subject for poetic work

1638

chapter 8|1 pages

Subject for poetic work

1639

chapter 9|6 pages

Poetic plans

1642

chapter 10|1 pages

The might of the pen

1642

chapter 11|3 pages

Of Education and the place of writing in its plan

1644

chapter 12|1 pages

Aim of Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

1644

chapter 13|1 pages

Salsilli on Milton

1645

chapter 14|1 pages

Manso on Milton

1645

chapter 15|2 pages

Dati on Milton

1645

chapter 16|1 pages

His Poems

1647

chapter 17|5 pages

Writing activities in the 1640s

1654

chapter 18|2 pages

The First Defense

1658

chapter 19|3 pages

Aim in De Doctrina Christiana before

1660(?)

chapter 20|1 pages

Anonymous attack on The Readie and Easie Way

1660

chapter 21|1 pages

Verse of Paradise Lost

1668

chapter 22|2 pages

The nature of tragedy

1671(?)

chapter 23|1 pages

Butler on Milton

Early 1670s(?)

chapter 24|2 pages

Leigh on the antiprelatical tracts

1673

chapter 25|2 pages

Marvell in defence of Milton

1673

chapter 26|2 pages

Marvell on Paradise Lost

1674

chapter 27|1 pages

Lee on Paradise Lost

1674(?)

part |40 pages

Further Seventeenth-Century Comment

chapter 28|1 pages

Phillips's notice of his uncle

1675

chapter 29|2 pages

Ellwood's ‘Epitaph on Milton'

1675(?)

chapter 30|1 pages

Aubrey's notes for a Life

Late 1670s

chapter 31|1 pages

F.C. on Paradise Lost

1680

chapter 32|2 pages

Pettit on Milton's advancement of papal aims

1680

chapter 33|2 pages

Roscommon on Paradise Lost

1685

chapter 34|1 pages

Dryden on Paradise Lost

1685

chapter 35|1 pages

Skinner on Milton

1686(?)

chapter 36|1 pages

Winstanley's notice

1687

chapter 37|1 pages

Dryden's ‘Epigram'

1688

chapter 38|1 pages

Comment on Milton

1692

chapter 39|1 pages

Dennis on rhyme

1692

chapter 40|1 pages

Preston on Milton's fame

1693(?)

chapter 41|2 pages

Dryden on Paradise Lost

1693

chapter 42|2 pages

Phillips on various works

1694

chapter 43|2 pages

Addison on Paradise Lost

1694

chapter 44|2 pages

Gildon's vindication of Paradise Lost

1694

chapter 45|3 pages

Hume's annotations of Paradise Lost

1695

chapter 46|2 pages

Dennis on Milton's Devils

1696

chapter 47|2 pages

Wesley on heroic poetry

1697

chapter 48|1 pages

Bayle's notice

1697

chapter 49|2 pages

Leslie on Milton's theology

1698

chapter 50|3 pages

Toland on various poems

1698

chapter 51|2 pages

Yalden on Milton's prose

1698

part |141 pages

Eighteenth-Century Comment to Bentley's Edition of ‘Paradise Lost'

chapter 52|1 pages

Oldys on Milton

1700

chapter 53|2 pages

Dennis on Milton's sublimity

1701

chapter 54|9 pages

Dennis on Paradise Lost

1704

chapter 55|1 pages

Trumbull on minor poems

1705

chapter 56|1 pages

Defoe on Paradise Lost

1706

chapter 57|2 pages

Watts's tribute to Milton

1706

chapter 58|1 pages

Swift on Milton's divorce tracts

1708

chapter 59|1 pages

Addison and Steele on Paradise Lost

1709

chapter 60|2 pages

Anonymous statement of Milton's sublimity

1709

chapter 61|1 pages

Shaftesbury on heroic poetry

1710

chapter 62|1 pages

Defoe on the two epics

1711

chapter 63|74 pages

Addison s papers on Paradise Lost

1712

chapter 64|1 pages

Addison on imagination and Paradise Lost

1712

chapter 65|1 pages

Welsted on Milton's sublimity

1712

chapter 66|2 pages

Ellwood on the composition of the epics

1714

chapter 67|1 pages

Eusden on reading Addison

1714

chapter 68|1 pages

Hughes on the allegory of sin and death

1715

chapter 69|2 pages

Blackmore on epic poetry

1716

chapter 70|1 pages

Atterbury on Milton

1717

chapter 71|1 pages

Gildon on heroic poetry

1718

chapter 72|1 pages

Dennis on Milton's reputation

1719

chapter 73|1 pages

Gildon on Milton's immortality

1721

chapter 74|10 pages

Dennis on Paradise Lost

1721–2

chapter 76|1 pages

Welsted on Milton's language

1724

chapter 77|2 pages

Fenton on Paradise Lost

1725

chapter 78|1 pages

Burnet's Notice

After 1700

chapter 79|9 pages

Voltaire on Milton

1727

chapter 80|1 pages

Lyttleton on Milton

1728

chapter 81|2 pages

Salmon on Abdiel

1728

chapter 82|1 pages

Dennis on Milton's poetical fire

1729

chapter 83|4 pages

Clarke on defects in Paradise Lost

1731