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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... thee . . . in hope of thy reply . For while I sit with thee , I seem in heav'n . ( 8 : 207-10 ) Adam's story takes the poem into a further ironic turn , for it is in the context of this colloquy with Raphael that Adam tells the story of ...
... thee . . . in hope of thy reply . For while I sit with thee , I seem in heav'n . ( 8 : 207-10 ) Adam's story takes the poem into a further ironic turn , for it is in the context of this colloquy with Raphael that Adam tells the story of ...
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... thee Certain my resolution is to die ; How can I live without thee , how forgo Thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined , To live again in these wild woods forlorn ? ... I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh Bone of my ...
... thee Certain my resolution is to die ; How can I live without thee , how forgo Thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined , To live again in these wild woods forlorn ? ... I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh Bone of my ...
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... thee For ever , and in me all whom thou lov'st . But whom thou hat'st , I hate , and can put on Thy terrors , as I put thy mildness on , Image of thee in all things ; and shall soon , Armed with thy might , rid heav'n of these rebelled ...
... thee For ever , and in me all whom thou lov'st . But whom thou hat'st , I hate , and can put on Thy terrors , as I put thy mildness on , Image of thee in all things ; and shall soon , Armed with thy might , rid heav'n of these rebelled ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
Copyright | |
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