Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible Into PoetryJames H. Sims, Leland Ryken |
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... Milton's prosody . Reading an Old Testament psalm produces an effect very similar to what happens when we read one of Milton's verse paragraphs , and analysis is capable of show- ing how the one has influenced the other . Among other ...
... Milton's prosody . Reading an Old Testament psalm produces an effect very similar to what happens when we read one of Milton's verse paragraphs , and analysis is capable of show- ing how the one has influenced the other . Among other ...
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... Milton criticism . One is the growing consensus that Milton's poetic forms or genres are modeled on the literary forms of the Bible . Annotators of Milton's po- etry have for more than two centuries shown that Milton used the Bible as a ...
... Milton criticism . One is the growing consensus that Milton's poetic forms or genres are modeled on the literary forms of the Bible . Annotators of Milton's po- etry have for more than two centuries shown that Milton used the Bible as a ...
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... Milton's Christian beliefs adequately explain what he did with the epic tradition . Yet Christian doctrine by itself does not ac- count for Milton's strategy . Christian writers of heroic story had struggled for centuries to reconcile ...
... Milton's Christian beliefs adequately explain what he did with the epic tradition . Yet Christian doctrine by itself does not ac- count for Milton's strategy . Christian writers of heroic story had struggled for centuries to reconcile ...
Contents
Leland Ryken | 3 |
Scriptural Formula and Prophetic Utterance in Lycidas | 31 |
Paradise Lost and Its Biblical Epic Models | 43 |
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