Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible Into PoetryJames H. Sims, Leland Ryken |
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... human hero ; Milton praises the only self - reliant hero , God . As Adam says to God , " Thou in thy self art perfet , and in thee / Is no deficience found ; not so is Man " ( 8.415-16 ) . Milton's substitution of a divine for a human ...
... human hero ; Milton praises the only self - reliant hero , God . As Adam says to God , " Thou in thy self art perfet , and in thee / Is no deficience found ; not so is Man " ( 8.415-16 ) . Milton's substitution of a divine for a human ...
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... human merit appears in Paradise Lost , but Milton gives it a novel twist by showing that what his human charac- ters merit is condemnation and death . The epic feat is not win- ning a victory but losing the world . Most conspicuous of ...
... human merit appears in Paradise Lost , but Milton gives it a novel twist by showing that what his human charac- ters merit is condemnation and death . The epic feat is not win- ning a victory but losing the world . Most conspicuous of ...
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... human to the divine . It dispenses with the classical paraphernalia of a semidivine hu- man hero and pictures instead a divine hero , Christ . The motif of empire takes the form of the spiritual kingdom of God , not the kingdom that a human ...
... human to the divine . It dispenses with the classical paraphernalia of a semidivine hu- man hero and pictures instead a divine hero , Christ . The motif of empire takes the form of the spiritual kingdom of God , not the kingdom that a human ...
Contents
Leland Ryken | 3 |
Scriptural Formula and Prophetic Utterance in Lycidas | 31 |
Paradise Lost and Its Biblical Epic Models | 43 |
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