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Page 43
... called attention to the resemblance be- tween this speech and Satan's when the latter offers to venture forth into the unknown in an attempt to locate Paradise.5 But I should ill become this Throne , O Peers , And this Imperial Sov ...
... called attention to the resemblance be- tween this speech and Satan's when the latter offers to venture forth into the unknown in an attempt to locate Paradise.5 But I should ill become this Throne , O Peers , And this Imperial Sov ...
Page 59
... called , is of particular interest . Because he was the leader of the giants who warred on Jove , the same tradition that identified the Gigantomachia with the Revolt of the Angels identified Typhon with Satan and Mount Etna with Hell ...
... called , is of particular interest . Because he was the leader of the giants who warred on Jove , the same tradition that identified the Gigantomachia with the Revolt of the Angels identified Typhon with Satan and Mount Etna with Hell ...
Page 124
... called the " false sublime . " Tumidity and prosiness - these are the Scylla and Charybdis which have always confronted the authors of blank verse . How was Milton to achieve , in a language judged inferior to Greek and Latin , in a ...
... called the " false sublime . " Tumidity and prosiness - these are the Scylla and Charybdis which have always confronted the authors of blank verse . How was Milton to achieve , in a language judged inferior to Greek and Latin , in a ...
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