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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... turn to Michael Fixler , Milton and the kingdoms of God ( London , 1964 ) , and his " The Apocalypse within Paradise Lost , " New Essays on Paradise Lost , ed . Thomas Kranidas ( Berkeley , 1969 ) , pp . 131-78 ; also see Leland Ryken's ...
... turn to Michael Fixler , Milton and the kingdoms of God ( London , 1964 ) , and his " The Apocalypse within Paradise Lost , " New Essays on Paradise Lost , ed . Thomas Kranidas ( Berkeley , 1969 ) , pp . 131-78 ; also see Leland Ryken's ...
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... turning the epic into a giant figure poem . Finally , I will consider the tempo- ral design of Paradise Lost , attempting to show how it , too , relates to the circular pattern by which Milton has fash- ioned one of the most elaborately ...
... turning the epic into a giant figure poem . Finally , I will consider the tempo- ral design of Paradise Lost , attempting to show how it , too , relates to the circular pattern by which Milton has fash- ioned one of the most elaborately ...
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... Turn swift thir various motions , or are turn'd By his Magnetic beam , that gently warms The Universe , and to each inward part With gentle penetration , though unseen , Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep : So wondrously was set ...
... Turn swift thir various motions , or are turn'd By his Magnetic beam , that gently warms The Universe , and to each inward part With gentle penetration , though unseen , Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep : So wondrously was set ...
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... turn engenders in Sin the multitudinous Hell Hounds , those " yelling Monsters that with ceaseless cry / Surround " her and return " when they list into the Womb / That bred them " ( II . 795-99 ) , providing , in Watkins's words , " a ...
... turn engenders in Sin the multitudinous Hell Hounds , those " yelling Monsters that with ceaseless cry / Surround " her and return " when they list into the Womb / That bred them " ( II . 795-99 ) , providing , in Watkins's words , " a ...
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... turn on their progenitor , reproducing by a kind of deadly invagination , God blends life forces to create an expressionistic world that burgeons with love for the Creator . In the above passages the verbal emphasis is on " opening ...
... turn on their progenitor , reproducing by a kind of deadly invagination , God blends life forces to create an expressionistic world that burgeons with love for the Creator . In the above passages the verbal emphasis is on " opening ...
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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