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... past and future , ap- pears at once : " This is the Month , and this the happy morn❞ ( italics added ) . Such gathering of historical particulars into an eternal unity causes the birthday and the day of the memorial poem to be one . As ...
... past and future , ap- pears at once : " This is the Month , and this the happy morn❞ ( italics added ) . Such gathering of historical particulars into an eternal unity causes the birthday and the day of the memorial poem to be one . As ...
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... past Edenic stance is not hopeful , for it seemed unequal to the thrust of reality . Nevertheless , the stance will ... past into its present grief , discovering that nature of itself has been Edenic , not hostile . Nature and man , as ...
... past Edenic stance is not hopeful , for it seemed unequal to the thrust of reality . Nevertheless , the stance will ... past into its present grief , discovering that nature of itself has been Edenic , not hostile . Nature and man , as ...
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... past Astarte , who becomes a type of the lustful sway of sexual passion over reason in Adam , Solomon , and even Satan himself ; past Tham- muz , who might have been figural of Christ or Orpheus but who instead , like Adam to Eve at the ...
... past Astarte , who becomes a type of the lustful sway of sexual passion over reason in Adam , Solomon , and even Satan himself ; past Tham- muz , who might have been figural of Christ or Orpheus but who instead , like Adam to Eve at the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
and Il Penseroso Arcades and At a Solemn | 21 |
Full Consort in On the Morning of Christs Nativity | 27 |
Copyright | |
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action Adam Adam's already angels answer appear asks audience Battle in Heaven become begins Book cause celebration choice choose Chorus Christ Christian close Comus considers continue course creation creative death despair direct divine doubt dream earth Eden elect enacted epic eternal evil fall fallen fear final follow gift glory God's greater harmony Heaven Hell hero hope human immortal indicates insists intimated judge judgment knowledge later lead light loss Lycidas man's matter meaning Milton mind mortal move nature offer once opposed original Paradise Lost Paradise Regained past pattern perhaps physical poem poet poetry present promise question Raphael readers realize reason receive renewal Samson Satan says seems sense setting shepherds Son's song spiritual stance stand suggests supply takes temptation thou thought tion true turn voice