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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Page 61
... evil and to perceive the goodness of God . As Milton says , when Uriel is fooled by Satan's disguise as the stripling cherub and by his guileful request for directions to Eden in Book 3 , So spake the false dissembler unperceived ; For ...
... evil and to perceive the goodness of God . As Milton says , when Uriel is fooled by Satan's disguise as the stripling cherub and by his guileful request for directions to Eden in Book 3 , So spake the false dissembler unperceived ; For ...
Page 103
... evil " is less relevant than the observer's attitude in relation to the star and vapors . In this simile Milton has significantly included the observer , another pilot : Thither came Uriel , gliding through the even On a sunbeam , swift ...
... evil " is less relevant than the observer's attitude in relation to the star and vapors . In this simile Milton has significantly included the observer , another pilot : Thither came Uriel , gliding through the even On a sunbeam , swift ...
Page 192
... evil . Modal consciousness is more possible here than in heaven or hell , for Eden was specifically created modal ... evil , not simply the consequence of evil ; and joy is a good , not simply the conse- quence of good . Even in the ...
... evil . Modal consciousness is more possible here than in heaven or hell , for Eden was specifically created modal ... evil , not simply the consequence of evil ; and joy is a good , not simply the conse- quence of good . Even in the ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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