Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible Into PoetryJames H. Sims, Leland Ryken |
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... pattern of a Christian Heroe . " 16 That Renaissance writers viewed the Bible as a repository of such heroic stories is abundantly clear from the frequency with which they used stories from the Bible as the subject matter for epic poems ...
... pattern of a Christian Heroe . " 16 That Renaissance writers viewed the Bible as a repository of such heroic stories is abundantly clear from the frequency with which they used stories from the Bible as the subject matter for epic poems ...
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... pattern is true of Milton's Adam , but not of other epic heroes . " Even the epic quest and epic feat in a story like the Abraham story fall into the private and domestic mode . The epic feat in other epics is public in nature and ...
... pattern is true of Milton's Adam , but not of other epic heroes . " Even the epic quest and epic feat in a story like the Abraham story fall into the private and domestic mode . The epic feat in other epics is public in nature and ...
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... pattern . Moses boasts of God's epic feats and as- cribes to God what in ordinary epic is ascribed to a human war- rior : “ by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place ” ( Exod . 13 : 3 ) ; “ the Lord shall bring thee ...
... pattern . Moses boasts of God's epic feats and as- cribes to God what in ordinary epic is ascribed to a human war- rior : “ by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place ” ( Exod . 13 : 3 ) ; “ the Lord shall bring thee ...
Contents
Leland Ryken | 3 |
Scriptural Formula and Prophetic Utterance in Lycidas | 31 |
Paradise Lost and Its Biblical Epic Models | 43 |
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