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... reader familiar with recent criticism of Milton will recognize its many influences in these pages . He will find that a number of statements re- current in the Milton controversy are reargued here and that disputed passages are analyzed ...
... reader familiar with recent criticism of Milton will recognize its many influences in these pages . He will find that a number of statements re- current in the Milton controversy are reargued here and that disputed passages are analyzed ...
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... reader of Paradise Lost now live . The tone of the speaker is controlled by his personal experience of this mortal world and his inspired vision of its contrast with the true pastoral world of Eden before the Fall and of the Paradise to ...
... reader of Paradise Lost now live . The tone of the speaker is controlled by his personal experience of this mortal world and his inspired vision of its contrast with the true pastoral world of Eden before the Fall and of the Paradise to ...
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... readers . This narrator , pictured as bird and especially as blind bard , is present without exception throughout the poem . Sometimes he directly addresses the Muse , or the char- acters , or the reader as mankind . Sometimes he ...
... readers . This narrator , pictured as bird and especially as blind bard , is present without exception throughout the poem . Sometimes he directly addresses the Muse , or the char- acters , or the reader as mankind . Sometimes he ...
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abstract meanings Adam and Eve Adam's Fall Adam's story adjective allegory allusions angels Areopagitica argument asso associated beauty bird blind bard characters circle comparisons concrete and abstract contrast created creation critical darkness described device diction divine dramatic Earth elaborate epic introductions Eve's evoke experience express extended similes fables Faerie Queene fallen reader fallen world familiar feel Fortunate Fall God's guage Heaven Hell heroic illumination illustrate images inner light innocence inspired narrator interpretation invocation lines loss Lycidas Milton's epic mortal vision narrative voice narrator's nature noun Paradise Lost particular passage pastoral poetry pattern physical poet poetry qualities Raphael rator reality recognize references reminds sacred metaphors Samson Agonistes Satan scene sense shades shape share song speaker speech Spenser's story structure style syntax thee thir thou throughout the poem tion tone tradition true pastoral world truth unfallen unique unity vision words