Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible Into PoetryJames H. Sims, Leland Ryken |
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... tion controversy , Milton was well aware that what he or anyone else regarded as biblical truth was only what a given interpretive community had agreed upon as the right interpretation . For Milton , therefore , scriptural tradition ...
... tion controversy , Milton was well aware that what he or anyone else regarded as biblical truth was only what a given interpretive community had agreed upon as the right interpretation . For Milton , therefore , scriptural tradition ...
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... tion : it results in its own reversal through the climactic declara- tion , " Weep no more , wofull shepherds weep no more . " With this declaration , the tradition of pastoral elegy , undermined at the outset , gives way to a new ...
... tion : it results in its own reversal through the climactic declara- tion , " Weep no more , wofull shepherds weep no more . " With this declaration , the tradition of pastoral elegy , undermined at the outset , gives way to a new ...
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... tion . A mind as ready as Milton's to transmute Scripture into po- etic fable would also detect in the same chapter a hint of the ulti- mate fate of Satan as a prelude to the far - off divine event to which the whole Creation was moving ...
... tion . A mind as ready as Milton's to transmute Scripture into po- etic fable would also detect in the same chapter a hint of the ulti- mate fate of Satan as a prelude to the far - off divine event to which the whole Creation was moving ...
Contents
Leland Ryken | 3 |
Scriptural Formula and Prophetic Utterance in Lycidas | 31 |
Paradise Lost and Its Biblical Epic Models | 43 |
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