The Mystical Design of Paradise LostIdentifies and discusses the thematic and structural aspects of the circular pattern underlying Milton's epic poem to elucidate its mystical meanings. |
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... God's eter- nal glory . I shall return to this question in chapter 1. Here let it suffice to say that in Paradise Lost the mystical level of meaning is consonant with other readings of the poem and with Milton's poetry , generally ...
... God's eter- nal glory . I shall return to this question in chapter 1. Here let it suffice to say that in Paradise Lost the mystical level of meaning is consonant with other readings of the poem and with Milton's poetry , generally ...
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... God's universe . In Paradise Lost Milton created a vast hieroglyph of God's abundance and love and of man's response to them . Adopt- ing the traditional symbol of God as a point or circle , the center and circumference of all things ...
... God's universe . In Paradise Lost Milton created a vast hieroglyph of God's abundance and love and of man's response to them . Adopt- ing the traditional symbol of God as a point or circle , the center and circumference of all things ...
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... God's ways . How Milton set about implementing this aspect of his poem is my subject . Why he chose to do it may be ascer- tained if we look briefly at the well - known patristic tradition of biblical exegesis that gave rise to it ...
... God's ways . How Milton set about implementing this aspect of his poem is my subject . Why he chose to do it may be ascer- tained if we look briefly at the well - known patristic tradition of biblical exegesis that gave rise to it ...
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... God's glory . The distinction that must be made in this is between the allegory of the theologian and that of the poet . The former deals with historical fact that has mystical significance , while the latter deals with a fiction ...
... God's glory . The distinction that must be made in this is between the allegory of the theologian and that of the poet . The former deals with historical fact that has mystical significance , while the latter deals with a fiction ...
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... God's universal plan is operant , that this world is an umbra futurorum . In our language we might want to call it the theological sense , which assures us ... that God is indeed in His heaven . . . . Thus , although the four senses of ...
... God's universal plan is operant , that this world is an umbra futurorum . In our language we might want to call it the theological sense , which assures us ... that God is indeed in His heaven . . . . Thus , although the four senses of ...
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid allegorical anagogical antimetabole beauty Beelzebub beginning Book VIII Book XII burning lake celestial central Christ Christopher Ricks circular Commedia concept consonant created creation creative Dante darkness dawn death defines demons discussion divine Earth emphasis eternal Eve's evil example Fall fallen angels final Galileo Galileo Galilei garden God's Heaven heavenly Hell heroic historical light lines loss Lycidas man's McColley meaning Michael Milton describes Milton's epic mystical mythic narrative nature Neoplatonic night numerological overall Paradise Lost parallels passage perfect poem poem's poet poetic poetry provides Raphael relation relationship Renaissance return to Eden rhetorical Satan Satan returns says scheme section of Book sense shape significance spatial speech Structure of Paradise Studies style suggest symbolic syntax temporal thee things thir thou tion tradition universe verbal verse paragraph verse sentence victory vision Whaler