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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... winds into the mouth of a river : As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland , where the wind Veers oft , as oft so steers , and shifts her sail . ( 9 : 513-15 ) The frame of the counterplot is similarly ...
... winds into the mouth of a river : As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland , where the wind Veers oft , as oft so steers , and shifts her sail . ( 9 : 513-15 ) The frame of the counterplot is similarly ...
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... winds , the mists , and the fires . The Chinese on the " windy sea of land " in Book 3 , unlike the fools that are blown to the Paradise of Fools that is the official referent , in the cold and barren space of meditative wisdom build ...
... winds , the mists , and the fires . The Chinese on the " windy sea of land " in Book 3 , unlike the fools that are blown to the Paradise of Fools that is the official referent , in the cold and barren space of meditative wisdom build ...
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... winds . All these upwhirled aloft Fly o'er the backside of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad , since called The Paradise of Fools . ( 3 : 486-97 ) In this pair of images the windy sea of land is both imagistically and ...
... winds . All these upwhirled aloft Fly o'er the backside of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad , since called The Paradise of Fools . ( 3 : 486-97 ) In this pair of images the windy sea of land is both imagistically and ...
Contents
The Poetics of Miltons Counterplot | 25 |
The Meditative Modes | 92 |
A Modal Reading of Paradise Lost | 109 |
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