Approaches to Paradise Lost / / ed. by C.A. Patrides.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Arthos, John,; Broadbent, J. B.,; Brockbank, Philip,; Harris, Bernard,; Hughes, Merritt Y.,; Huntley, Frank L.,; Morris, Brian,; Prince, F.T.,; Radzinowicz, Mary Ann,; Samuel, Irene,; Spencer, T.J.B.,; Summers, Joseph H.,; Trapp, J.B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Patrides, C.A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

This volume gathers together the papers given at a conference at University of Western Ontario in honour of the Tercentenary of Paradise Lost. The contributors, all eminent Milton scholars of international reputation, include Roy Daniells, Northrop Frye, Hugh MacCallum, Arthur E. Barker, and Balachandra Rajan. Their essays here provide a coherent and masterly study of one of the land marks of English literature. The series of lectures were delivered at the University of York in 1966 and 1967 to make the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of Paradise Lost (1667). There is one addition of the series -- Mr. J.B. Trapp's contribution containing twenty-eight illustrations which comprise one of the largest collections of iconography of the Fall of Man. All the lectures are published in the order they were delivered; this order was not premeditated and neither was the nature of the series. The lecturers were simply invited to speak on Paradise Lost: the particular approach was subject only to their interests. The variety is wide, ranging from literary and doctrinal aspects of the work to its musical and iconographic extensions. The initial aim has been achieved. As the editor states, "This tribute to Milton is a joint Anglo-American enterprise, in keeping with our ever-increasing awareness that our study of Paradise Lost (as all of great literature) is advanced most when we expose ourselves to one and another’s' insights."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- The Contributors -- Preface -- Before and After the Fall: Some Miltonic Patterns of Systasis -- Paradise Lost as Mimesis -- 'Man as a Probationer of Immortality': Paradise Lost XI-XII -- Milton and the Theatrical Sublime -- The Embarrassments of Paradise Lost -- Paradise Lost: The Anti-Epic -- Milton's 'Mortal Voice' and his 'Omnific Word' -- 'That Soft Seducer, Love': Dryden's The State of Innocence and Fall of Man -- 'Not Without Song': Milton and the Composers -- Milton, Andreini, and Galileo: SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MANNER AND FORM OF PARADISE LOST -- Beyond Disobedience -- 'Within the Visible Diurnal Spheare': the Moving World of Paradise Lost -- SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION