ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1964
Jezik: Engleski
Vrsta: Eseji i kritike
Autor: Strani

A.J.A. Waldock - Paradise Lost And Its Critics
Cambridge University Press, 1964
147 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Professor Waldock rejects the common critical urge, at the time of this book`s publication in 1961, to assert that certain parts of Paradise Lost conflict with John Milton`s stated aim. Instead he argues that, because Milton recounts the difficult first chapters of Genesis at such length and in such imaginative detail, he disconcerts his readers. Milton`s poetic power gives Adam and Eve at the moment of the Fall such human attractiveness that it is impossible to condemn them. The magnificent figure of Satan is consistently more appealing than Milton`s God; and by a fatal lack of literary tact God is presented directly and quoted at length. This leads Milton into absurd literalisms and sometimes into evasiveness and self-contradiction and produces a conflict between what Milton meant to do and what the poem actually does. Professor Waldock`s witty critical arguments appeal to the reader`s direct and unprompted response to the poetry.


Non-Fiction, Literature, Criticism & Theory, Izgubljeni raj, Džon Milton