The Club of Hercules: Studies in the Classical Background of Paradise Lost |
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... Book of the Aeneid , becomes roughly parallel to the building of Pandemonium in the First Book of Paradise Lost . This correspondence is too close to be accidental and is , in fact , confirmed by a remarkable verbal parallel . When , in ...
... Book of the Aeneid , becomes roughly parallel to the building of Pandemonium in the First Book of Paradise Lost . This correspondence is too close to be accidental and is , in fact , confirmed by a remarkable verbal parallel . When , in ...
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... books . By the beginning of the Fifth Book , our growing suspicions have been confirmed . Satan's conduct has opened our eyes wide to his real nature and also to the fact that even this nature is undergoing a slow but inexorable ...
... books . By the beginning of the Fifth Book , our growing suspicions have been confirmed . Satan's conduct has opened our eyes wide to his real nature and also to the fact that even this nature is undergoing a slow but inexorable ...
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... Book , occurring , oddly enough , in Milton's description of the idyllic bridal bower to which Adam and Eve had once ... Book illustrating sexuality before the Fall , the other in the Ninth Book commenting upon it afterwards . Here the ...
... Book , occurring , oddly enough , in Milton's description of the idyllic bridal bower to which Adam and Eve had once ... Book illustrating sexuality before the Fall , the other in the Ninth Book commenting upon it afterwards . Here the ...
Contents
Chapter One FIT AUDIENCE | 1 |
Chapter Two NOT LESS BUT MORE HEROIC ས ༤ | 40 |
Chapter Four THE VEIL OF INNOCENCE | 67 |
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Achilles Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allusion amorous authors beauty bee simile begins blank verse Book of Paradise borrowing Burning Lake Carthage comparison context death describes device Dido Dido's dream Dryden Earth edition editors English epic episode epithet Eve's eyes fact Fall Fallen Angels Fourth Book Georgic glory gods grammar Greek Heaven Hell hero heroic Homer Homer and Virgil Horace Iliad imitation influence innocent Juno Jupiter kind language Latin lines literary London meaning metaphor Milton Criticism mind Mount Ida Neoptolemus note to P.L. numbers Odysseus Odyssey Ovid Paradise Lost parallel passage Phaethon Phoebus phrase poem poet poetic poetry quoted Raphael reader Renaissance rhetorical rhythmical Roman Salmoneus Satan schoolboy sense serpents shore simile spear speech Spenser structure style Tellus thee thir thou tion Tityos tradition translation Trojans Troy Turnus Typhon verbal echo Virgil Virgilian writes Zeus