Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible Into PoetryJames H. Sims, Leland Ryken |
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Page 54
... Genesis and based much of his poem on it.35 Even though Genesis lacks a single unifying epic hero , it is re- plete with the type of heroism that the Renaissance , especially , associated with epic . Martin Luther suggested the ...
... Genesis and based much of his poem on it.35 Even though Genesis lacks a single unifying epic hero , it is re- plete with the type of heroism that the Renaissance , especially , associated with epic . Martin Luther suggested the ...
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... Genesis is their social obscurity . Whereas Western epic and romance have taken aristocratic fig- ures as their heroes , the heroes of Genesis were not prominent national or international figures within the world of their sto- ries ...
... Genesis is their social obscurity . Whereas Western epic and romance have taken aristocratic fig- ures as their heroes , the heroes of Genesis were not prominent national or international figures within the world of their sto- ries ...
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... Genesis . Genesis 1 and 2 are subdued ; there are no mighty thunderings ; there is rather an orderly pro- cession of marvelous events , an unfolding design . The language is measured , the details are few - features that Erich Auerbach ...
... Genesis . Genesis 1 and 2 are subdued ; there are no mighty thunderings ; there is rather an orderly pro- cession of marvelous events , an unfolding design . The language is measured , the details are few - features that Erich Auerbach ...
Contents
Leland Ryken | 3 |
Scriptural Formula and Prophetic Utterance in Lycidas | 31 |
Paradise Lost and Its Biblical Epic Models | 43 |
Copyright | |
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