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"the Hero in the Paradise Lost is unsuccessfull, and by no Means a Match for his Enemies." |
Addison in early critics |
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"he that looks for an Hero in it, searches for that which Milton never intended." (also, Dryden's Reflection that the Devil was in reality Milton's Hero.) |
Addison in early critics |
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"his first Speech is a Complication of all those Passions which discover themselves separately in several other of his Speeches in the Poem." |
Addison in early critics |
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"the Author has taken Care to introduce none (of the Impieties that the Devil utters) that is not big with Absurdity, and incapable of shocking a Religious Reader." |
Addison in early critics |
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"he never quits his Simile till it rises to some very great Idea, which is often foreign to the Occasion that gave birth to it." |
Addison in early critics about Milton's extended Similes and allusions |
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"A Reader of Milton must be always upon Duty; he is Surrounded with Sense, it rises in every Line, every Word is to the Purpose... he Expresses Himself so Concisely, Employs Words So Sparingly, that whoever would Possess His Ideas must Dig for them, and Oftentimes pretty far below the Surface. If This is called Obscurity, let it be remembered ‘tis such a One as is Complaisant to the Reader, not Mistrusting his Ability... if a Good Writer is not understood, ‘tis because his Reader is Unacquainted with, or Incapable of the Subject, or will not Submit to do the Duty of a Reader, which is to Attend Carefully to what he Reads.” (cxliv-cxlv) |
Richardson in early critics |
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"He had accustomed his imagination to unrestrained indulgence, and his conceptions therefore were extensive." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"The characteristik quality of his poem is sublimity." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"He can please when pleasure is required, but it is his peculiar power to astonish." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"Through all his greater works there prevails an uniform peculiarity of Diction, / and which is so far removed from common use that an unlearned reader when he first opens his book finds himself surprised by a new language." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"Our language," says Addison, "sunk under him." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"the reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and a nobler mind, and criticism sinks in admiration." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"The highest praise of genius is original invention." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"his work is not the greatest of heroick poems, only because it is not the first." |
Johnson in early critics about Milton |
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"he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it." |
William Blake in early critics about Milton |
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"Milton's Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God." |
Shelly in early critics about Milton |
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"the poet was really invoking two muses in Book 1, the first in lines 1 to 17 and the second in lines 17 to 26." |
Verity in Davies and Hunter's essay |
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"while Lucifer represents equivocation, God embodies paradox." |
Davies |
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"If Satan in this first book is sardonic, surely God's quietude is the greatest irony of all." |
Davies |
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"You are to be simultaneously disturbed by sympathy and disgust for a Satan who is the supreme manifestation of your own fallen state." |
Davies |
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Syntax is Milton's staple Idiom |
Davies |
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Satan's baleful character |
Annotations |
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"Milton's allegations clash with his demonstrations." |
Waldock (Quoted in Norton p. 415)[annotations] |
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Heaven of hell, hell of heaven.. Stoic Philosophy. |
Stoic Philosophy which held that one's mind could remain unmoved by both good and evil circumstances. |
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"Milton's effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful." |
Carey in companion |
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"Satan is not a single concept, but a trimorph." [Archangel, Prince of Devils and Serpent-tempter] |
Carey |
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"Milton's narrative strategy conceals the logic flaw." |
Carey |
