Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic EpicIn Paradise Lost, his poetic retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, John Milton sought to create a Christian parallel to the classical works of Homer and Virgil. His achievement remains the undisputed masterpiece of the epic for in English. Francis Blessington's Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic clarifies the complexities of the poem and highlights its relevance to our own time as well as Milton's. |
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... hand , we have a species of bardolatry , which is influ- ential because it comes from master writers who uphold Milton's epic as the norm by which to judge other poetic achievements . On the other hand , the more Paradise Lost has been ...
... hand , we have a species of bardolatry , which is influ- ential because it comes from master writers who uphold Milton's epic as the norm by which to judge other poetic achievements . On the other hand , the more Paradise Lost has been ...
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... hands . But his teaching is mainly showing , not telling . His accounts of the war in heaven and of the Creation ... hand experience of life in heaven . A Platonic duality emerges between the world as we know it and the world of the ...
... hands . But his teaching is mainly showing , not telling . His accounts of the war in heaven and of the Creation ... hand experience of life in heaven . A Platonic duality emerges between the world as we know it and the world of the ...
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... hands in his hand , a picture of launching children into the world ( “ education " ) and leaves them in each other's hands , which separated at the Fall ( 9.385–86 ) , in order to rely on that society that saved them from suicide and ...
... hands in his hand , a picture of launching children into the world ( “ education " ) and leaves them in each other's hands , which separated at the Fall ( 9.385–86 ) , in order to rely on that society that saved them from suicide and ...
Contents
Historical Context | 1 |
Importance of the Work | 6 |
Critical Reception | 12 |
Copyright | |
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Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic Francis C. Blessington,Francis C.. Blessington No preview available - 1988 |
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