| | 1 | Author: | Himes, John A. | Add | | | Title: | Milton's Angels  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN an article on the Plan of Paradise Lost, published in
this periodical, March, 1883, the writer had occasion to speak of
certain characteristics of Milton's supernatural beings. A systematic
account of these beings did not come within the scope of that paper,
but the interest of the subject may perhaps make its separate
treatment from a new standpoint not unwelcome. Other writers have
considered Milton's angels mainly as products of literary art; I wish
to examine them as products of thought, giving attention to the inner
meaning rather than to the outward form. Convinced that there has
already been too much unintelligent criticism, I venture upon the far
more difficult and in some respects perilous task of interpretation.
With little to say about the soundness or the propriety of the poet's
methods and opinions, I shall content myself with inquiring what they
are. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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