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Page 37
... Fall makes it clear that , in terms of the surface argumentation of the poem , the consequences of the Fall were all utterly bad for man at least as they affected his ordinary human life on earth . The notion that the curse of work was ...
... Fall makes it clear that , in terms of the surface argumentation of the poem , the consequences of the Fall were all utterly bad for man at least as they affected his ordinary human life on earth . The notion that the curse of work was ...
Page 47
... Fall involved the felix culpa , the theory that the Fall made possible the manifestation of divine love in the Christian scheme of redemption . Milton refers to this , once very cursorily in his opening statement of theme , and once ...
... Fall involved the felix culpa , the theory that the Fall made possible the manifestation of divine love in the Christian scheme of redemption . Milton refers to this , once very cursorily in his opening statement of theme , and once ...
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... Fall were not all bad . ) ' Death is the mother of beauty ' : if we lived for ever , the moment of experienced beauty would be less sharp , less poignant , less real . Although time and change bring forgetfulness of both sorrows and ...
... Fall were not all bad . ) ' Death is the mother of beauty ' : if we lived for ever , the moment of experienced beauty would be less sharp , less poignant , less real . Although time and change bring forgetfulness of both sorrows and ...
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief Book of Job Burns Burns's C.S. Lewis called Calvinist Canto century Christ Christian creed Dante Dante's darkness death deism divine doctrine earth Edwin Muir English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling Gifford Lectures glory God's goes grace hast Heaven Hebrew Hopkins Hugh MacDiarmid human imagery images imagination innocent James Thomson Job's justice kind language lecture literature Lord MacDiarmid man's meaning Milton mind mood moral moving mystery Nature never night orthodox Paradise Lost paradox poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scotland Scottish seems sense sing speech stanza Stevens suffering suggest symbolic tells Tennyson thee theodicy theology things Thomson thou thought tion tradition truth universe Victorian poet vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens Whitman wicked words