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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... hand , Milton has found a form that works by its very unobtrusiveness . Like the hand of God , the action of poetry gives shape to random events , though we cannot always perceive that shape from our mundane point of view . In Lycidas ...
... hand , Milton has found a form that works by its very unobtrusiveness . Like the hand of God , the action of poetry gives shape to random events , though we cannot always perceive that shape from our mundane point of view . In Lycidas ...
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... images of violation by which he describes the work of their " impi- ous hands , " which 7. ( Minneapolis , 1953 ) , p . 158 . Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother Earth For Treasures better 30 THE MYSTICAL DESIGN OF PARADISE LOST.
... images of violation by which he describes the work of their " impi- ous hands , " which 7. ( Minneapolis , 1953 ) , p . 158 . Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother Earth For Treasures better 30 THE MYSTICAL DESIGN OF PARADISE LOST.
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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