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... beauty more adorn'd , More lovely than Pandora ( IV , 711-14 ) . . The verses in Genesis proclaiming the marriage of Adam and Eve may be regarded as the ultimate source of the inseparable union of love and Paradise in Paradise Lost ...
... beauty more adorn'd , More lovely than Pandora ( IV , 711-14 ) . . The verses in Genesis proclaiming the marriage of Adam and Eve may be regarded as the ultimate source of the inseparable union of love and Paradise in Paradise Lost ...
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... beauty of the true paradise garden . Homer's Garden of Alcinous , ( Od . , VII , 112— 34 ) , visited by Odysseus , enjoyed an eternal spring and was famed for its sensuous beauty and fertility . Some have considered the realm of ...
... beauty of the true paradise garden . Homer's Garden of Alcinous , ( Od . , VII , 112— 34 ) , visited by Odysseus , enjoyed an eternal spring and was famed for its sensuous beauty and fertility . Some have considered the realm of ...
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... beauty that inspired Christian poets who praised the wonder of the garden planted by God . Christian Interpretations Christian writers at first rejected the classical ideas of a golden age existence and of remote , blessed isles , but ...
... beauty that inspired Christian poets who praised the wonder of the garden planted by God . Christian Interpretations Christian writers at first rejected the classical ideas of a golden age existence and of remote , blessed isles , but ...
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... beauty , " and its scene was always the locus amoenus . Despite the example of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue , the golden age myth and pastoralism did not really converge until the Renaissance.8 Although in the works of many Renaissance ...
... beauty , " and its scene was always the locus amoenus . Despite the example of Virgil's Fourth Eclogue , the golden age myth and pastoralism did not really converge until the Renaissance.8 Although in the works of many Renaissance ...
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Contents
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3 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA | 38 |
4 THE MIDDLE AGES | 67 |
5 THE HISTORICAL PARADISE OF THE RENAISSANCE | 89 |
6 THE LEGACY OF EDEN | 125 |
7 THE SEARCH FOR PARADISE | 188 |
8 THE NATURAL PARADISE THE CELESTIAL PARADISE AND THE INNER PARADISE | 234 |
9 THE FADING OF PARADISE | 269 |
NOTES | 291 |
INDEX | 319 |
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