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... course individual expectations vary considerably - there are two expectations he can hardly avoid having : he expects a Christian poem , and he expects an epic . He cannot escape knowing at least the rudiments of Christian doctrine : a ...
... course individual expectations vary considerably - there are two expectations he can hardly avoid having : he expects a Christian poem , and he expects an epic . He cannot escape knowing at least the rudiments of Christian doctrine : a ...
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... course of Satan's journey up to light . Though " distances " between Heaven , Earth , and Hell are " inex- pressible By Numbers that have name " ( VIII , 113-14 ) , God's view is un- diminished by distance . Hence , though we seem to ...
... course of Satan's journey up to light . Though " distances " between Heaven , Earth , and Hell are " inex- pressible By Numbers that have name " ( VIII , 113-14 ) , God's view is un- diminished by distance . Hence , though we seem to ...
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... course the famous Commandments ( XII , 227–35 ) . The more significant level of action , then , is that of the Divine Will . But here , too , the logic is at times perplexing : why does God allow his Chosen People to be enslaved ? why ...
... course the famous Commandments ( XII , 227–35 ) . The more significant level of action , then , is that of the Divine Will . But here , too , the logic is at times perplexing : why does God allow his Chosen People to be enslaved ? why ...
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 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 simply 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 Yale Milton