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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... sense of pur- pose that comes to him through imaginative investigation of the world around him and by intimations of other worlds he cannot actually know . The Virgilian tradition accords well with Milton's ubiquitous sense of a poetic ...
... sense of pur- pose that comes to him through imaginative investigation of the world around him and by intimations of other worlds he cannot actually know . The Virgilian tradition accords well with Milton's ubiquitous sense of a poetic ...
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... sense of God's providence and wisdom in working out the affairs of man . The circular design suits well with Renais- sance notions of symbol and with modern appraisals of what Northrop Frye calls the " cyclical form of the Classical ...
... sense of God's providence and wisdom in working out the affairs of man . The circular design suits well with Renais- sance notions of symbol and with modern appraisals of what Northrop Frye calls the " cyclical form of the Classical ...
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... sense of the ultimate wisdom and justice of 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 ...
... sense of the ultimate wisdom and justice of 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 ...
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... sense.5 As Aquinas discusses it , the anagogical sense differs from that tradition of secular allegoresis which finds beneath the literal a veiled meaning of hidden truths not always entirely consistent with the apparent surface meaning ...
... sense.5 As Aquinas discusses it , the anagogical sense differs from that tradition of secular allegoresis which finds beneath the literal a veiled meaning of hidden truths not always entirely consistent with the apparent surface meaning ...
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... sense , which assures us ... that God is indeed in His heaven . . . . Thus , although the four senses of Scriptural ... sense is given as an historical sense standing in its own right , like Milton's say - not devised in order to convey ...
... sense , which assures us ... that God is indeed in His heaven . . . . Thus , although the four senses of Scriptural ... sense is given as an historical sense standing in its own right , like Milton's say - not devised in order to convey ...
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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