Reading the Classics and Paradise Lost

by William Porter

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Milton's early commentators--Henry Todd, Thomas Newton, Joseph Addison, and others--not only knew their classics well, they took them seriously as models of literary excellence and repositories of values. In the twentieth century, however, the classics have become mere "background." As a consequence, William M. Porter argues, not only is the foundational dimension of Milton's poetry now hardly visible, even to scholars, but the potential of Milton's...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0803237065

ISBN13:9780803237063

Release Date:March 1993

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:222 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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