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... Fallen Angels . One notices how appositely Milton has varied the terms of the figure . In the Aeneid , the Cyclops are likened to trees which are alive and flourishing , not blasted and dying as are the forest oaks and mountain pines to ...
... Fallen Angels . One notices how appositely Milton has varied the terms of the figure . In the Aeneid , the Cyclops are likened to trees which are alive and flourishing , not blasted and dying as are the forest oaks and mountain pines to ...
Page 104
... fallen though they are , with a swarm of bees . Milton , of course , did not invent the bee simile . Its history in epic literature stretches all the way back to Homer , who compares the Achaian warriors , flocking forth in bands from ...
... fallen though they are , with a swarm of bees . Milton , of course , did not invent the bee simile . Its history in epic literature stretches all the way back to Homer , who compares the Achaian warriors , flocking forth in bands from ...
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... Fallen Angels repair to dig out the materials for the build- ing of Pandemonium bears a certain resemblance to Mount Etna , as Virgil had described it.14 There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top Belch'd fire and rowling smoak ; the ...
... Fallen Angels repair to dig out the materials for the build- ing of Pandemonium bears a certain resemblance to Mount Etna , as Virgil had described it.14 There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top Belch'd fire and rowling smoak ; 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