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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... Poems and Translations of Thomas Stanley , 1625-78 ( Editor ) Poems on Affairs of State , 1685-88 ( Editor ) of Paradise Lost Galbraith Miller Crump UNIVERSITAS Lewisburg Bucknell University.
... Poems and Translations of Thomas Stanley , 1625-78 ( Editor ) Poems on Affairs of State , 1685-88 ( Editor ) of Paradise Lost Galbraith Miller Crump UNIVERSITAS Lewisburg Bucknell University.
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... Poems and Major Prose , edited by Merritt Y. Hughes ( New York : The Odyssey Press , 1957 ) . Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Crump , Galbraith Miller . The mystical design of Paradise lost . Bibliography : p . 1 ...
... Poems and Major Prose , edited by Merritt Y. Hughes ( New York : The Odyssey Press , 1957 ) . Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Crump , Galbraith Miller . The mystical design of Paradise lost . Bibliography : p . 1 ...
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... poem's development . To my surprise — and no doubt to that of my students as well I found as my structural sketches multiplied more and more evidence of an elaborately articulated , circular pattern underlying the entire epic . At first ...
... poem's development . To my surprise — and no doubt to that of my students as well I found as my structural sketches multiplied more and more evidence of an elaborately articulated , circular pattern underlying the entire epic . At first ...
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... poem's moral , religious , and aesthetic being . By mystical I mean to refer specifically to the long tradition of allegorical exegesis that saw sacred literature as created to express a number of levels of meaning , the most mysterious ...
... poem's moral , religious , and aesthetic being . By mystical I mean to refer specifically to the long tradition of allegorical exegesis that saw sacred literature as created to express a number of levels of meaning , the most mysterious ...
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... poem than that arising from the pastoral elegy . We might say that Milton recognized the need to imbue his poem with a design that would be more nearly consonant with a Christian vision of harmony , justice , and rebirth . Wittreich ...
... poem than that arising from the pastoral elegy . We might say that Milton recognized the need to imbue his poem with a design that would be more nearly consonant with a Christian vision of harmony , justice , and rebirth . Wittreich ...
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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