Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty |
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... earthly kings whom he op- poses in being subject to the dominating Son , seen in his ascen- sion at the center of the poem.7 Though the vestigial beauty bestowed by heavenly birth and his incomparably more massive eternal scale set ...
... earthly kings whom he op- poses in being subject to the dominating Son , seen in his ascen- sion at the center of the poem.7 Though the vestigial beauty bestowed by heavenly birth and his incomparably more massive eternal scale set ...
Page 140
... earthly expectations will be defeated at a very deep level . The Son's " bliss embosomed " is made out of the ache of his assumption of mortality , built on the agony in the garden , founded on grief yet to be encountered . His ...
... earthly expectations will be defeated at a very deep level . The Son's " bliss embosomed " is made out of the ache of his assumption of mortality , built on the agony in the garden , founded on grief yet to be encountered . His ...
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... earthly kingship to a new vision of the nature of the heavenly King , which absorbs and transcends all the images accumulated in the first six books . This image is achieved through the avoidance of all emblems that could pos- sibly ...
... earthly kingship to a new vision of the nature of the heavenly King , which absorbs and transcends all the images accumulated in the first six books . This image is achieved through the avoidance of all emblems that could pos- sibly ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's allusion anointing army barbarian barbarous Beelzebub Book Caesar Chaos chariot Christ Christian Christopher Hill civil coronation Cromwell Death Defence divine earth earthly Eikon Basiliké Eikonoklastes emblem emperor emphasized empire English epic epic similes Eve's evil fall fallen angels father feudal glory God's gold Heaven heavenly Hell human king ibid imagined imperial implied John Milton justice king's kingship liberty Lord majesty Milton's God Milton's poem mind Moloch monarchy moral nature Nimrod Paradise Lost pattern Persians Pharaoh poet poet's poetic poetry political present prose Psalm Puritan Raphael reader rebel rebellion regicide reign relationship Renaissance ritual Roman royal Royalist rule Satan scourge sense simile Solomon speech spirit structure Stuart subjects sultan symbolism thee thir thou throne tion triumph triumphal Turkish Turkish crescent Turks tyranny tyrant University victory Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos virtue vision Yale