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... attempt to narrate the Fall of Man , Milton may reenact his own . The word appears again in the same invocation : • though fall'n on evil dayes , On evil dayes though fall'n , and evil tongues . ( VII.25-26 ) Here again the poet seems ...
... attempt to narrate the Fall of Man , Milton may reenact his own . The word appears again in the same invocation : • though fall'n on evil dayes , On evil dayes though fall'n , and evil tongues . ( VII.25-26 ) Here again the poet seems ...
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... attempt appears not only in the form of Milton's goal- " Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime " ; it also describes Satan's project " to attempt the minde / of Man " ( X. 8-9 ) . Both Satan and the blind poet are about to attempt ...
... attempt appears not only in the form of Milton's goal- " Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime " ; it also describes Satan's project " to attempt the minde / of Man " ( X. 8-9 ) . Both Satan and the blind poet are about to attempt ...
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... attempt , not to fly is for Satan as Beelzebub perceived- " to sit in darkness here / Hatching vain Empires " ( II.377-78 ) , a direct parody of the creative action of that spirit who " Dove - like satst brooding on the vast Abyss / And ...
... attempt , not to fly is for Satan as Beelzebub perceived- " to sit in darkness here / Hatching vain Empires " ( II.377-78 ) , a direct parody of the creative action of that spirit who " Dove - like satst brooding on the vast Abyss / And ...
Contents
The Pattern of Invocation in Miltons Poetry | 11 |
Paradise Lost | 45 |
Voice and Crisis | 63 |
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