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... epic poet : to present a comprehensive view , a conspectus of life , as it appears to him and his times . In presenting this total view , this complete survey and inter- pretation of life , he will necessarily present a system of ...
... epic poet : to present a comprehensive view , a conspectus of life , as it appears to him and his times . In presenting this total view , this complete survey and inter- pretation of life , he will necessarily present a system of ...
Page 85
... epic similes in Paradise Lost is indicated by the epithets applied to them - longtailed , decorative , digressive , detached . This view derives from the neoclassical period . Towards the end of the seventeenth century the epic or ...
... epic similes in Paradise Lost is indicated by the epithets applied to them - longtailed , decorative , digressive , detached . This view derives from the neoclassical period . Towards the end of the seventeenth century the epic or ...
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... epic and also the needs of the argument and story . By epic conventions I do not mean merely the battles , which every epic in the classical tradition must have , though this is a factor : I mean the func- tion of the episode in the ...
... epic and also the needs of the argument and story . By epic conventions I do not mean merely the battles , which every epic in the classical tradition must have , though this is a factor : I mean the func- tion of the episode in the ...
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accepted action Adam and Eve Adam's angels appear argument become beginning better Book called century character comes common course created creation criticism Death describing doctrine Earth effect English epic evil example expressed fact Fall Father feel figure follows fruit God's hand Heaven Hell heroic human ideas images imagination knowledge language Latin less light lines live look means MICHIGAN Milton mind narrative nature never once opening original Paradise Lost passage peace person picture poem poet poetic poetry presented question reader reason relation represent Satan says scene seen sense sight simile stand story style tells thee things thir thou thought tion told true truth UNIVERSITY verse whole wind write