Beautiful Sublime: The Making of 'Paradise Lost, ' 1701-1734

by Leslie E. Moore

'Sublime' and 'Milton' - no other pairing is used more frequently in early discussions of the author of Paradise Lost: Addison finds Milton's genius 'wonderfully turned to the Sublime', John Dennis calls Milton 'the sublimist of all our poets', while Jonathan Richardson concludes that Milton's mind 'is truly poetical. Great, strong, elegant and sublime'. Modern critics look askance at these 'sublime Miltonists', who are charged with forcing Paradise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804716323
• ISBN13: 9780804716321
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"