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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... earth has not known storms and earthquakes in its unfallen state . Although these images have a certain aptness as a picture of what earth will be like if he disobeys , they reflect an inappropriate strategy because , drawn directly ...
... earth has not known storms and earthquakes in its unfallen state . Although these images have a certain aptness as a picture of what earth will be like if he disobeys , they reflect an inappropriate strategy because , drawn directly ...
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... earth ( 8 : 74-84 ) , trying to " frame " it and kill the motion with their rhombs , spheres , and centric and ... earth / Imports not " ( 7 : 70-71 ) ; that the " rhomb ... needs not . . . [ his ] belief " if he imagines that the earth ...
... earth ( 8 : 74-84 ) , trying to " frame " it and kill the motion with their rhombs , spheres , and centric and ... earth / Imports not " ( 7 : 70-71 ) ; that the " rhomb ... needs not . . . [ his ] belief " if he imagines that the earth ...
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... earth that build and disrupt civilizations , as in the Iliad ; nor is it the art of the domestic earth pictured on Achilles ' shield that provides lyric relief from war . It is not the " opiate " lyrical art of the fallen angels that ...
... earth that build and disrupt civilizations , as in the Iliad ; nor is it the art of the domestic earth pictured on Achilles ' shield that provides lyric relief from war . It is not the " opiate " lyrical art of the fallen angels that ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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