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... influences on a work like Paradise Lost , it is evident , first , that Milton and the prose writers shared many of the same concerns and , second , that he was affected by the cumulative influence of their approach , de- spite various ...
... influences on a work like Paradise Lost , it is evident , first , that Milton and the prose writers shared many of the same concerns and , second , that he was affected by the cumulative influence of their approach , de- spite various ...
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... influenced by them . The golden age , the Garden of Alcinous , and other classical con- cepts were often regarded as faded , distorted images of the true biblical Eden , and sometimes they were dismissed as altogether false . Milton was ...
... influenced by them . The golden age , the Garden of Alcinous , and other classical con- cepts were often regarded as faded , distorted images of the true biblical Eden , and sometimes they were dismissed as altogether false . Milton was ...
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... influence of Virgil's Elysium on Christian descriptions of paradise was probably due to its association with the Islands of the Blest and other places where men enjoyed the life of the golden age . This association , however , developed ...
... influence of Virgil's Elysium on Christian descriptions of paradise was probably due to its association with the Islands of the Blest and other places where men enjoyed the life of the golden age . This association , however , developed ...
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... influence descriptions of Christian paradises . Finally , the mountaintop paradise of Dante and Milton is anticipated in the poetry of Statius and Claudian . In the Achilleid , Statius depicts a grove , sacred to the rites of Bacchus ...
... influence descriptions of Christian paradises . Finally , the mountaintop paradise of Dante and Milton is anticipated in the poetry of Statius and Claudian . In the Achilleid , Statius depicts a grove , sacred to the rites of Bacchus ...
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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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