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The Theme of Paradise Lost

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

H. W. Peck
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Lovers of Milton's poetry occasionally note with regret signs that his great epic is losing its influence upon the mind of the race. Hence, any attempt to revive interest in Paradise Lost deserves the sympathetic attention of students of literature. Such an attempt is the article of Professor E. N. S. Thompson, The Theme of Paradise Lost, printed in the Publications of the Modern Language Association, March, 1913. As I venture to differ from the writer, however, in a number of important particulars, I shall attempt to formulate what seems a more comprehensive view of the meaning of Milton's epic.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , 1914 , pp. 256 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1914

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References

1 Pattison's Milton, p. 177.

2 Pattison's Milton, p. 183.

3 P. E. More, Shelbourne Essays, p. 239.

4 Rev. H. 6. Rosedale, Milton Memorial Lectures, pp. 109-10.

5 C. D., p. 437.

6 C. D., p. 440.

7 C. D., p. 442.

8 C. D., p. 445.

9 C. D., p. 443.

10 C. D., pp. 169, 253.

11 C. D., p. 213.

12 C. D., pp. 16, 17.

13 Greenough and Kittredge, Words and Their Ways in English Speech, p. 258.

14 G. D., p. 153.

15 Quoted by Mark Pattison, Milton, p. 198.

16 P. L., i, 732-748. Cf. also P. L. i, 364-375.

17 Bosanquet, History of Æsthetic, p. 161.