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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... emphasis on this form . As Joseph Wittreich has suggested , there may be an underlying pattern in Lycidas that is more fully responsible for the poem's ultimate aesthetic and mystical power.1 Al- though Wittreich himself does not ...
... emphasis on this form . As Joseph Wittreich has suggested , there may be an underlying pattern in Lycidas that is more fully responsible for the poem's ultimate aesthetic and mystical power.1 Al- though Wittreich himself does not ...
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... emphasize is that Milton seems successfully to have given shape to Lycidas , the later poem , and failed to do so in the earlier ones . Clearly , Milton thought in terms of poetic structures at least as much as he did in terms of genre ...
... emphasize is that Milton seems successfully to have given shape to Lycidas , the later poem , and failed to do so in the earlier ones . Clearly , Milton thought in terms of poetic structures at least as much as he did in terms of genre ...
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... emphasis on the accounts of the 1. The Sermons of John Donne , ed . E. M. Simpson and George R. Porter ( Berke- ley , 1953 ) , vi . 173 . 2. St. Thomas Aquinas , In Librum B. Dionysii de Divinis Nominibus , caput iv . lectio 7. Also see ...
... emphasis on the accounts of the 1. The Sermons of John Donne , ed . E. M. Simpson and George R. Porter ( Berke- ley , 1953 ) , vi . 173 . 2. St. Thomas Aquinas , In Librum B. Dionysii de Divinis Nominibus , caput iv . lectio 7. Also see ...
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... emphasis Milton places on the processes and moments of creation related to his poem . In contrast to the inorganic or destructive activities of Satan and his crew " creating " the first cannon and build- ing Pandemonium , of Sin's ...
... emphasis Milton places on the processes and moments of creation related to his poem . In contrast to the inorganic or destructive activities of Satan and his crew " creating " the first cannon and build- ing Pandemonium , of Sin's ...
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... emphasis is on " opening , " " spreading , " " freeing . " These are the aspects of birth that symbolize for Milton the es- sence of being under God . Though Raphael tells Adam and Eve of God's Creation , we witness , of course ...
... emphasis is on " opening , " " spreading , " " freeing . " These are the aspects of birth that symbolize for Milton the es- sence of being under God . Though Raphael tells Adam and Eve of God's Creation , we witness , of course ...
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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