tailieunhanh - Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 12: Paradise regained

Of “paradise regained” the general judgment seems to be right,that is in many parts elegant and everywhere instructive. It was not to be supposed that the writer of “Paradise Lost” could ever write without great effusions of fancy and exalted precepts of wisdom. The basis of “Paradise regained” is narrow a dialogue without action can never please like a union of the narrative and dramatic powers. Had this poem been written not by Milton but by some imitator it would have claimed and received universal praise. | PARADISE REGAINED Of “paradise regained” the general judgment seems to be right,that is in many parts elegant and everywhere instructive. It was not to be supposed that the writer of “Paradise Lost” could ever write without great effusions of fancy and exalted precepts of wisdom. The basis of “Paradise regained” is narrow a dialogue without action can never please like a union of the narrative and dramatic powers. Had this poem been written not by Milton but by some imitator it would have claimed and received universal praise. SAMSON AGONISTS Was published with “Paradise Regained” Unlike “Paradise Regained” it received a lot of admiration. Milton’s bias for classics against French and English theatre. It is the name of Milton because of which a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe. In this tragedy are many particular beauties many just sentiments and striking lines but it wants the power of . | PARADISE REGAINED Of “paradise regained” the general judgment seems to be right,that is in many parts elegant and everywhere instructive. It was not to be supposed that the writer of “Paradise Lost” could ever write without great effusions of fancy and exalted precepts of wisdom. The basis of “Paradise regained” is narrow a dialogue without action can never please like a union of the narrative and dramatic powers. Had this poem been written not by Milton but by some imitator it would have claimed and received universal praise. SAMSON AGONISTS Was published with “Paradise Regained” Unlike “Paradise Regained” it received a lot of admiration. Milton’s bias for classics against French and English theatre. It is the name of Milton because of which a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe. In this tragedy are many particular beauties many just sentiments and striking lines but it wants the power of attracting the attention which a well connected plan procedures. Milton would not have excelled in dramatic writing,he knew human nature only in gross. He knew what the books could teach but he had mingled little with the world and was deficient in the knowledge and experience must confer. Through all his greater works there prevails a uniform peculiarity of Diction that bears no resemblance to any past writers. So unlearned reader when opens his book finds himself surprised with a new language. Addison says “Our language sank under him”. He uses English with a foreign idiom which in his prose is condemined but the power and beauty of his poetry is so that criticism sinks in admiration. Milton’s style was modified by his subject. “He wrote no language”. Butler called it “Babylonish Dialect” Made by exalted genius and extensive learning. We find grace in its deformity as it provides so much learning and pleasure. From his book alone “The Art of English poetry” may be learned. FROM COWLEY