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... structure , characterization , and pre - emi- nently style . The thesis is simple . We cannot , with justice , ignore the relations of Paradise Lost to the tradition which has provided so much of its vitality and grandeur . These ...
... structure , characterization , and pre - emi- nently style . The thesis is simple . We cannot , with justice , ignore the relations of Paradise Lost to the tradition which has provided so much of its vitality and grandeur . These ...
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... structure.2 Sing , goddess , the wrath of Achilles Peleus ' son , the ruinous wrath that brought on the Achaians woes innumerable , and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes , and gave their bodies to be a prey to dogs and ...
... structure.2 Sing , goddess , the wrath of Achilles Peleus ' son , the ruinous wrath that brought on the Achaians woes innumerable , and hurled down into Hades many strong souls of heroes , and gave their bodies to be a prey to dogs and ...
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... structure . This structure is based on the three prin- ciple movements — or , if one prefers , periods — of the poem . The first movement carries us down to line 5 , the second to the middle of line 12 , and the third concludes the poem ...
... structure . This structure is based on the three prin- ciple movements — or , if one prefers , periods — of the poem . The first movement carries us down to line 5 , the second to the middle of line 12 , and the third concludes the poem ...
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