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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... significance , while the latter deals with a fiction created to veil an allegorical level . Spen- ser creates a marvelously complex , fictional narrative to embody his allegory . Milton recounts what were for him the historical facts of ...
... significance , while the latter deals with a fiction created to veil an allegorical level . Spen- ser creates a marvelously complex , fictional narrative to embody his allegory . Milton recounts what were for him the historical facts of ...
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... significance than usual in Milton's treatment of them . Rosalie Colie writes in this regard : 11. " The Reason of Church - Government Urg'd Against Prelaty , " Works ( New York , 1931 ) , 3:22 . For an excellent account of the ...
... significance than usual in Milton's treatment of them . Rosalie Colie writes in this regard : 11. " The Reason of Church - Government Urg'd Against Prelaty , " Works ( New York , 1931 ) , 3:22 . For an excellent account of the ...
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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