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... seems to diminish the status of the pagan myth by insisting that the petition of Adam and Eve is at least as important as that of Deucalion and Pyrrha . Yet the word " Seem'd " opens that insistence to doubt . Within the comparison ...
... seems to diminish the status of the pagan myth by insisting that the petition of Adam and Eve is at least as important as that of Deucalion and Pyrrha . Yet the word " Seem'd " opens that insistence to doubt . Within the comparison ...
Page 56
... seems to move on a different , mythic plane from them , seems only to border on , not to challenge the order of the dramatized Egerton family . The occasional nature of the masque may have forced the mythic and social orders together ...
... seems to move on a different , mythic plane from them , seems only to border on , not to challenge the order of the dramatized Egerton family . The occasional nature of the masque may have forced the mythic and social orders together ...
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... seem to enhance her moral purity . The compression of mythological lore which the Pomona similes achieve suggests that ... seems also to be indebted indirectly to Augustine's Confessions and Petrarch's Rime sparse . 33Cf . Scylla ...
... seem to enhance her moral purity . The compression of mythological lore which the Pomona similes achieve suggests that ... seems also to be indebted indirectly to Augustine's Confessions and Petrarch's Rime sparse . 33Cf . Scylla ...
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allegorical argument Baucis and Philemon beauty Book Cadmus Ceres Chapter characters Christian classical epic Comus counterheroic critics depiction described Deucalion devils dialogue with Ovid divine Echo English epic poet episode Eve's Faerie Queene Fall fallen angels Garden of Adonis genre Giraldi gods Heaven hero heroic heroism Homer human imitation John Milton Latin literary Martz masque Medea Meta Metamorphoses Milton and Ovid Milton's allusions Milton's epic Miltonic narrator moral morphoses Muse myth Narcissus narrative narrator's Orpheus Ovid Ovid's Ovid's fables Ovid's Metamorphoses Ovid's poem Ovidian Ovidian figures pagan Paradise Lost passage Poet of Exile poet's poetic poetry Pomona Proserpina Pyrrha Pythagoras reader reading Renaissance response revaluation rhetorical Satan scene Scylla sense serpent simile song speech Spenser spirit story structure style suggests Tasso Tereus thou tion tradition transformation verse Vertumnus Virgil Wittreich words