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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... reader far from the simpler perceptual experiences that are one of the beginnings of Milton's declension of mind . Yet , as the poet offered the reader mimetic instances of gradual and participatory mo- tion in which the changes and ...
... reader far from the simpler perceptual experiences that are one of the beginnings of Milton's declension of mind . Yet , as the poet offered the reader mimetic instances of gradual and participatory mo- tion in which the changes and ...
Page 269
... reader sees the mind in balance , weighing , observ- ing , swaying in the motions of doubt and yearning in relation to building a city , reaping wheat , and the mind of the poet in a more sheltered space " Feed [ ing ] on thoughts that ...
... reader sees the mind in balance , weighing , observ- ing , swaying in the motions of doubt and yearning in relation to building a city , reaping wheat , and the mind of the poet in a more sheltered space " Feed [ ing ] on thoughts that ...
Page 313
... Reader : compared to Michael , 269 ; con- trasted to Satan , 268 ; preconceptions about nature of Paradise , 166 ; relation to author and poem in PL , 67 ; sense perception , 28- 30 , 32-35 . See also Desirer ; Reader's mind ; Reader ...
... Reader : compared to Michael , 269 ; con- trasted to Satan , 268 ; preconceptions about nature of Paradise , 166 ; relation to author and poem in PL , 67 ; sense perception , 28- 30 , 32-35 . See also Desirer ; Reader's mind ; Reader ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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