The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise LostHarvard University Press, 1970 - 227 pages |
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... Hell to which we have just responded . The first scenes in Hell seem to me the most successful examples in English of serious mock - heroic . The absurdities in logic , in argument , in the inhabitants ' disguising or failing to ...
... Hell to which we have just responded . The first scenes in Hell seem to me the most successful examples in English of serious mock - heroic . The absurdities in logic , in argument , in the inhabitants ' disguising or failing to ...
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... Hell , a Hell of Heav'n . What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be , all but less than hee Whom Thunder hath made greater ? ( I. 250-258 ) Satan is continually saying things which are true in a sense which he ...
... Hell , a Hell of Heav'n . What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be , all but less than hee Whom Thunder hath made greater ? ( I. 250-258 ) Satan is continually saying things which are true in a sense which he ...
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... Hell - born , not to contend with Spirits of Heav'n " ( 686-687 ) . " The Goblin full of wrath " accuses Satan of being a " Traitor Angel " who has disturbed peace in Heaven ( 689-691 ) . Death asserts his absolute sovereignty over Hell ...
... Hell - born , not to contend with Spirits of Heav'n " ( 686-687 ) . " The Goblin full of wrath " accuses Satan of being a " Traitor Angel " who has disturbed peace in Heaven ( 689-691 ) . Death asserts his absolute sovereignty over Hell ...
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Abdiel abstract abstract art action Adam and Eve Adam's Addison analogies angels believe Book XI C. S. Lewis civilization comic concerned continual challenges corruption creation dark David Daiches Death decorum desire Disobedience divine dramatic E. M. W. Tillyard Earth English poetry epic Eternal Providence Eve's evil experience F. T. Prince Faith fall final Fruit giv'n God's happy hath Heav'n Heav'nly Muse Hell heroic human imagine implies inevitably Judgment knew learning literary literature live major English man's means method Michael Milton modern reader motions moved movement natural opening lines Oreb Paradise Lost paradoxically passage peace perceived perfect perspectives poet poetic poetry praise Raphael reality recognize rejoicing relation reminded respond Samson Agonistes Satan sense sexual special knowledge speech spirit Temples thee things thir thou thought vast Abyss vision War in Heaven warfare writing the poem