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Page 67
... Fall logically comprehen- sible . It was , however , within his powers to transcend man's finite understanding through the magical agency of poetry and to make the facts of the Fall imaginatively true and hence wholly acceptable ...
... Fall logically comprehen- sible . It was , however , within his powers to transcend man's finite understanding through the magical agency of poetry and to make the facts of the Fall imaginatively true and hence wholly acceptable ...
Page 68
... Fall , including the hexameral literature , or from any source whatsoever , provided that his imaginative reconstruction of events leading to and away from the Fall did not distort or impair in any way the biblical account ; second , as ...
... Fall , including the hexameral literature , or from any source whatsoever , provided that his imaginative reconstruction of events leading to and away from the Fall did not distort or impair in any way the biblical account ; second , as ...
Page 80
... Fall . Again it was Pope who was the first , ap- parently , to see that Milton's use of the Mount Ida episode was not confined to that portion of the poem immediately following the Fall . He recognized an earlier allusion in the Fourth ...
... Fall . Again it was Pope who was the first , ap- parently , to see that Milton's use of the Mount Ida episode was not confined to that portion of the poem immediately following the Fall . He recognized an earlier allusion in the Fourth ...
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