Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible Into PoetryJames H. Sims, Leland Ryken |
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... story with epic heroes , Genesis is a story of national des- tiny and scope , inasmuch as it recounts the patriarchal history of the line that became the nation of Israel . The feat around which the story revolves is an epic feat — the ...
... story with epic heroes , Genesis is a story of national des- tiny and scope , inasmuch as it recounts the patriarchal history of the line that became the nation of Israel . The feat around which the story revolves is an epic feat — the ...
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... story of Gene- sis 2-3 is insufficient to account for Milton's lengthy treatment of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost . The real model is the entire epic of Genesis . Throughout the book of Genesis we observe family life in a rural and ...
... story of Gene- sis 2-3 is insufficient to account for Milton's lengthy treatment of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost . The real model is the entire epic of Genesis . Throughout the book of Genesis we observe family life in a rural and ...
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... story like the Abraham story fall into the private and domestic mode . The epic feat in other epics is public in nature and national in its importance ; it consists of winning a war or founding an empire or defeating a monster . Even in ...
... story like the Abraham story fall into the private and domestic mode . The epic feat in other epics is public in nature and national in its importance ; it consists of winning a war or founding an empire or defeating a monster . Even in ...
Contents
Leland Ryken | 3 |
Scriptural Formula and Prophetic Utterance in Lycidas | 31 |
Paradise Lost and Its Biblical Epic Models | 43 |
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