Milton's Kinesthetic Vision in Paradise LostThe author demonstrates that the apparent contradictions in the poetic, dramatic, and conceptual framework of Paradise Lost are purposive, indeed central, to Milton's kinesthetic poetics. |
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... distance from earth as " within soar / Of tow'ring eagles " ( 5 : 270-71 ) . Space and distance take their measurement from the motion of the beings who move within or through it . In the examples given above , the shifts in point of ...
... distance from earth as " within soar / Of tow'ring eagles " ( 5 : 270-71 ) . Space and distance take their measurement from the motion of the beings who move within or through it . In the examples given above , the shifts in point of ...
Page 138
... distance from the pain of yearning or disconnects itself in the opposite direction in order to gain distance from an insufficient intermediate , and yet in the closed fluidity of mode still yearns , the angels , who are close to God ...
... distance from the pain of yearning or disconnects itself in the opposite direction in order to gain distance from an insufficient intermediate , and yet in the closed fluidity of mode still yearns , the angels , who are close to God ...
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... distance from his own future city , his uncertainty , and his yearn- ing ; and then the beauty and coolness of the faery elves , the delight they afford the peasant and the fear , and his distance from home . Such a group of similes as ...
... distance from his own future city , his uncertainty , and his yearn- ing ; and then the beauty and coolness of the faery elves , the delight they afford the peasant and the fear , and his distance from home . Such a group of similes as ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
Copyright | |
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