The Club of Hercules: Studies in the Classical Background of Paradise Lost |
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... kind of loss . vey These are powerful advantages and , by securing them , the poet does well . No more than the man in the street can he afford to ignore the experience of the past . But human experience is not static . Just as it is a ...
... kind of loss . vey These are powerful advantages and , by securing them , the poet does well . No more than the man in the street can he afford to ignore the experience of the past . But human experience is not static . Just as it is a ...
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... kind is governed by its own laws . The nature of the poet's intention determined the kind and the choice of kind determined the models he set before him . Furthermore , just as there was operative in the world of man and of nature a ...
... kind is governed by its own laws . The nature of the poet's intention determined the kind and the choice of kind determined the models he set before him . Furthermore , just as there was operative in the world of man and of nature a ...
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... kind of grim foreshadowing of the later and larger fire . There is another implied contrast with Homer in the opening lines of the Aeneid , one which Virgil will elaborate upon in the course of the epic . In the tenth line , Aeneas is ...
... kind of grim foreshadowing of the later and larger fire . There is another implied contrast with Homer in the opening lines of the Aeneid , one which Virgil will elaborate upon in the course of the epic . In the tenth line , Aeneas is ...
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