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... Milton or God himself , selects his literary tools with an eye to the effect he wishes to produce in his audience . Since God is portrayed in a variety of ways in Paradise Lost , as he is in the Bible , there is every reason to suppose ...
... Milton or God himself , selects his literary tools with an eye to the effect he wishes to produce in his audience . Since God is portrayed in a variety of ways in Paradise Lost , as he is in the Bible , there is every reason to suppose ...
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... God if he is merciful . Poetic speech is to be judged by its effects , not its intentions , and here the effect is ... Milton's subordination of the Son to the Father does give the interchange dra- matic force that it otherwise would lack , ...
... God if he is merciful . Poetic speech is to be judged by its effects , not its intentions , and here the effect is ... Milton's subordination of the Son to the Father does give the interchange dra- matic force that it otherwise would lack , ...
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... Milton's Defensive God : A Reap- praisal , " Studies in Philology 69 ( 1972 ) , 87–100 . If early readers found the God of Book III reassuring ( we really have no evidence to support or refute this claim ) , they did so because they ...
... Milton's Defensive God : A Reap- praisal , " Studies in Philology 69 ( 1972 ) , 87–100 . If early readers found the God of Book III reassuring ( we really have no evidence to support or refute this claim ) , they did so because they ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic E. R. Curtius Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth