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... Reference to the Hexameral Background , A. Bartlett Gia- matti's The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic , and Ar- nold Williams's The Common Expositor . I am aware of an im- mense debt to numerous other works which have proved ...
... Reference to the Hexameral Background , A. Bartlett Gia- matti's The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic , and Ar- nold Williams's The Common Expositor . I am aware of an im- mense debt to numerous other works which have proved ...
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... references to a para- dise garden in Ezekiel , which seem to stem from a different tradi- tion . In the first of these passages ( Ezek . 28 : 11-19 ) occurs the only biblical description of the Edenic garden as atop a high mountain , as ...
... references to a para- dise garden in Ezekiel , which seem to stem from a different tradi- tion . In the first of these passages ( Ezek . 28 : 11-19 ) occurs the only biblical description of the Edenic garden as atop a high mountain , as ...
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... references to the trees of life and of knowledge in the midst of the garden , to the injunction to work , and to the ... reference to the mist that went up from the earth and " watered the whole face of the ground " ( Gen. 2 : 6 ) .1 ...
... references to the trees of life and of knowledge in the midst of the garden , to the injunction to work , and to the ... reference to the mist that went up from the earth and " watered the whole face of the ground " ( Gen. 2 : 6 ) .1 ...
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... reference to his lack of shame in nudity ( IV , 288-313 ) . The Yahwist version of man's creation is also introduced in ... references here to unnatural unions . Milton expands this biblical account into a long dialogue between a rather ...
... reference to his lack of shame in nudity ( IV , 288-313 ) . The Yahwist version of man's creation is also introduced in ... references here to unnatural unions . Milton expands this biblical account into a long dialogue between a rather ...
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... references to the " happy places " ( " locos laetos " ) and the " groves of the blest " ( " Fortunatorum Nemorum " ) the happy life and the pleasant setting fuse much as they do in Paradise Lost . Elysium is the home in the Lower World ...
... references to the " happy places " ( " locos laetos " ) and the " groves of the blest " ( " Fortunatorum Nemorum " ) the happy life and the pleasant setting fuse much as they do in Paradise Lost . Elysium is the home in the Lower World ...
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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