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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 36
Page 61
... human cua riosity for Milton and other Renaissance humanists is its relevance to human happiness : intellect must serve humanity , not the reverse . The purpose of life is not to be scholarly , which can clearly be an irrelevant vanity ...
... human cua riosity for Milton and other Renaissance humanists is its relevance to human happiness : intellect must serve humanity , not the reverse . The purpose of life is not to be scholarly , which can clearly be an irrelevant vanity ...
Page 63
... human Life began / Is hard ; for who himself beginning knew ? " ( 8.250-51 ) . His words echo Satan's ( 5.855-64 ) . Through Adam's account of his beginnings , we see into Milton's conception of the natural human being . By instinct ...
... human Life began / Is hard ; for who himself beginning knew ? " ( 8.250-51 ) . His words echo Satan's ( 5.855-64 ) . Through Adam's account of his beginnings , we see into Milton's conception of the natural human being . By instinct ...
Page 64
... human being is . Unfallen Ada assumes that he has a right to be happy . While naming the anima he presumably notices their pairing and then asks God for a mate . try him , God suggests that perhaps a member of the animal kingdo would do ...
... human being is . Unfallen Ada assumes that he has a right to be happy . While naming the anima he presumably notices their pairing and then asks God for a mate . try him , God suggests that perhaps a member of the animal kingdo would do ...
Contents
Historical Context | 1 |
Importance of the Work | 6 |
Critical Reception | 12 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic Francis C. Blessington,Francis C.. Blessington No preview available - 1988 |
Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman Abdiel accept action Adam and Eve Adam learns Adam's Addison Aeneid allegorical allusions Aristotle battle Bible biblical Blake Cambridge characters Christian classical epic conception context created creation death divine dramatic Dryden E. M. W. Tillyard earth English epic poem epic poetry Eve's evil Fall fallen Father feel Flow'rs fruit garden genre glory God's guilt happiness hath heaven Hebrew Hell heroic heroism Homer human Iliad inspired John Dryden John Milton King language literary literature live London Lord metaphor Michael Milton criticism Milton's epic Milton's style mind narrator nature Oxford Paradise Lost parallel poet poetic political praise prelapsarian prophecy Prose Raphael reader rebel angels Renaissance rhetoric Satan seed serpent shalt shows Son's speech Spirit story symbolic Tasso thee thir thou thought tion tragedy tree true truth University Press unto verse Virgil vision W. H. Auden woman writing