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Page xiv
... final twelve - book form , in the second edition of 1674 , just as Dryden finished a competing five - act theatrical adaptation of the epic entitled The State of Innocence . The final version of Paradise Lost in fact embodies a series ...
... final twelve - book form , in the second edition of 1674 , just as Dryden finished a competing five - act theatrical adaptation of the epic entitled The State of Innocence . The final version of Paradise Lost in fact embodies a series ...
Page 42
... final stage of composition or " inserted when the poem seemed finished . " 4 Rudimentary plans for scenes in a region of the damned - plans that Milton eventually elaborated with material about infernal realms drawn from classical ...
... final stage of composition or " inserted when the poem seemed finished . " 4 Rudimentary plans for scenes in a region of the damned - plans that Milton eventually elaborated with material about infernal realms drawn from classical ...
Page 43
... final punishment of the devils in a place like the one where " Sodom flam'd " ( X.562 ) . A Sinful Realm and Heaven Compared Milton had only to look again at the outlines to begin drawing paral- lels between a region of evil and Heaven ...
... final punishment of the devils in a place like the one where " Sodom flam'd " ( X.562 ) . A Sinful Realm and Heaven Compared Milton had only to look again at the outlines to begin drawing paral- lels between a region of evil and Heaven ...
Contents
PREFACE | xiii |
THE INWARD VISION I | xx |
INCONSTANT THEATRICAL DESIGNS | 16 |
Copyright | |
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Milton's Theatrical Epic: The Invention and Design of Paradise Lost John G. Demaray No preview available - 1999 |
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