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... vision of reality can be me- diated to man - by suggesting that , on the contrary , this description has been pure sleight of hand . Although God sees things " as they really are , ” any image the poet can give us of God's vision will ...
... vision of reality can be me- diated to man - by suggesting that , on the contrary , this description has been pure sleight of hand . Although God sees things " as they really are , ” any image the poet can give us of God's vision will ...
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... vision is dance and song . The Morning Hymn , rather like an unfallen soliloquy , but sung in unison by Adam and Eve and addressed not to each other but to God , is the most beautiful , hence the truest expression of unfallen human vision ...
... vision is dance and song . The Morning Hymn , rather like an unfallen soliloquy , but sung in unison by Adam and Eve and addressed not to each other but to God , is the most beautiful , hence the truest expression of unfallen human vision ...
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... vision is presented , it is Adam who freely responds to it . Michael's corrections never correct the re- sponse but the evidence upon which that response is based ; his invariable assumption is that , given the proper information , Adam ...
... vision is presented , it is Adam who freely responds to it . Michael's corrections never correct the re- sponse but the evidence upon which that response is based ; his invariable assumption is that , given the proper information , Adam ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic E. R. Curtius Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth