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Page 136
... whole philosophic meaning of the epic . When Satan summons his followers to council in the North , evil enters the cosmos . Satan's action initiates the whole sequence of the expulsion of the rebel angels , the creation of man to take ...
... whole philosophic meaning of the epic . When Satan summons his followers to council in the North , evil enters the cosmos . Satan's action initiates the whole sequence of the expulsion of the rebel angels , the creation of man to take ...
Page 187
... whole Western tradition from Aristotle onward is behind Milton here ; Milton could assume acquaintance with this tradition and assume it not merely for his fit audience though few . And in Paradise Lost itself God is constantly ...
... whole Western tradition from Aristotle onward is behind Milton here ; Milton could assume acquaintance with this tradition and assume it not merely for his fit audience though few . And in Paradise Lost itself God is constantly ...
Page 207
... whole , the cosmic setting of the epic conflict , is clear enough from the fact that the river Oceanus , the sea , which the Greeks believed to encircle the whole habitable world , is engraved around the rim of the shield . The shield ...
... whole , the cosmic setting of the epic conflict , is clear enough from the fact that the river Oceanus , the sea , which the Greeks believed to encircle the whole habitable world , is engraved around the rim of the shield . The shield ...
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