![]() ![]() Reich has produced a thoughtful and thought-provoking reading of Milton’s ‘short epic.’ The theorists provide the frame, but the core of the work is Dr. Drawing skillfully and tactfully on the work of theorists such as Wolfgang Iser, Gerard Genette and Meike Bal, Dr. Maresca, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Stony Brook This study plays an important part in that re-assessment by illuminating some of the most fundamental elements of Paradise Regained’s achievement. Happily, the last 25 years have produced a gradual accumulation of efforts to revive the short epic’s reputation and to re-assess its achievement. ![]() Until relatively recently, scholars and critics have been more likely to quarrel with the poem than appreciate it: at the nadir of its reputation, Paradise Regained has been seen as an unsuccessful conglomeration of false starts, cobbled together by the poet in some sort of response to some sort of public pressure. Despite Milton’s own high estimate of his poem’s accomplishment, Paradise Regained has always been the least loved of Milton’s major poems, steadily overshadowed by Paradise Lost and esteemed less than Samson Agonistes and even Comus or Lycidas. ![]() “This slim volume makes a large contribution to the ongoing resuscitation of Paradise Regained. ![]()
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