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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... thou Dismiss not her , when most thou need'st her nigh , By attributing overmuch to things Less excellent , as thou thyself perceiv'st . For what admir'st thou , what transports thee so , An outside ? Fair no doubt , and worthy well Thy ...
... thou Dismiss not her , when most thou need'st her nigh , By attributing overmuch to things Less excellent , as thou thyself perceiv'st . For what admir'st thou , what transports thee so , An outside ? Fair no doubt , and worthy well Thy ...
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... Thou therefore also taste , that equal lot May join us , equal joy , as equal love ; Lest thou not tasting , different degree Disjoin us , and I then too late renounce Deity for thee , when fate will not permit . ( 9 : 881-85 ) This ...
... Thou therefore also taste , that equal lot May join us , equal joy , as equal love ; Lest thou not tasting , different degree Disjoin us , and I then too late renounce Deity for thee , when fate will not permit . ( 9 : 881-85 ) This ...
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... thou desir'st And what thou fear'st , alike destroys all hope Of refuge , and concludes thee miserable Beyond all past example and future , To Satan only like , both crime and doom . O Conscience , into what abyss of fears And horrors hast ...
... thou desir'st And what thou fear'st , alike destroys all hope Of refuge , and concludes thee miserable Beyond all past example and future , To Satan only like , both crime and doom . O Conscience , into what abyss of fears And horrors hast ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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