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Page 207
... action of the Aeneid in perspec- tive with the whole history of Rome , which , to Virgil and the Romans , was the entire civilized world . The shield of Rinaldo is less comprehen- sive , but it does extend the significance of the action ...
... action of the Aeneid in perspec- tive with the whole history of Rome , which , to Virgil and the Romans , was the entire civilized world . The shield of Rinaldo is less comprehen- sive , but it does extend the significance of the action ...
Page 208
... actions on the shield are at most dynamic pictures and have no narrative connection with the action of the epic . At most , the shields send their owners into action with a greater awareness of the significance of their deeds . Like his ...
... actions on the shield are at most dynamic pictures and have no narrative connection with the action of the epic . At most , the shields send their owners into action with a greater awareness of the significance of their deeds . Like his ...
Page 242
... action . Whatever else Satan may lose by his fall , he keeps his wits about him . His soliloquy at the beginning of Book IV reveals an astonishingly candid and exact self - knowledge , and this insight into the motives of his own revolt ...
... action . Whatever else Satan may lose by his fall , he keeps his wits about him . His soliloquy at the beginning of Book IV reveals an astonishingly candid and exact self - knowledge , and this insight into the motives of his own revolt ...
Contents
Acknowledgements 791 | 7 |
Chronology | 27 |
ARTHUR BARKER The Pattern of Miltons Nativity | 44 |
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action Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid anadiplosis angels antimetabole antistrophe beauty beginning Book xi C. S. Lewis century Christ Christian creation creature critics death divine doctrine Donne dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard Earth effect English epanalepsis epic voice epizeuxis eternity Eve's evil experience fall fallen fame glory God's hath Heaven Hell heroic human Il Penseroso incarnation John Milton knowledge L'Allegro less liberty lines literary Lucifer Lycidas marriage means melancholy Michael Milton mind moral motivation narrative nature Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paradox passage Penseroso perhaps phrase pleasures ploce poem poem's poet poetic poetry praise prose Puritan Raphael reader reading reason Renaissance rhetoric romantic Samson Agonistes Satan Satan's rebellion seems sense seventeenth seventeenth-century significance simile soul speech spirit suggested temptation thee theme things thir thou thought Tillyard tion tradition traductio true truth verse Waldock wisdom words write