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... divine inspiration and again com- pares his poetic task to the original divine creation of the uni- verse out of the void . Familiarity , if not with Paradise Lost at least with the fact of its three - hundred - year existence as a ...
... divine inspiration and again com- pares his poetic task to the original divine creation of the uni- verse out of the void . Familiarity , if not with Paradise Lost at least with the fact of its three - hundred - year existence as a ...
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... divine ' . The oxymoron here is striking . The word ' face ' is wedged between two adjectives that say opposite things , ' human ' and ' divine ' . This is a favourite word - order of Milton's , and its rhetorical significance is of con ...
... divine ' . The oxymoron here is striking . The word ' face ' is wedged between two adjectives that say opposite things , ' human ' and ' divine ' . This is a favourite word - order of Milton's , and its rhetorical significance is of con ...
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... Divine ; and only so are their methods of argument and modes of expression possible at all . This is worlds away from the eighteenth - century view that the Newtonian order that can be demonstrated to exist in the universe proves the ...
... Divine ; and only so are their methods of argument and modes of expression possible at all . This is worlds away from the eighteenth - century view that the Newtonian order that can be demonstrated to exist in the universe proves the ...
Contents
God Defended | 26 |
God and Nature | 50 |
Poetic Attitudes to God from the Psalms to Dante | 69 |
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