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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... literature group themselves and tal their form . It was God who directed the mind towards truth and wh set the ... literature , the Golden Age poetry of sixteenth century England yielded to the divine poetry of the seventeenth cen tury ...
... literature group themselves and tal their form . It was God who directed the mind towards truth and wh set the ... literature , the Golden Age poetry of sixteenth century England yielded to the divine poetry of the seventeenth cen tury ...
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... literature of creation or Hexemeral literature , such as poems written by Du Bartas and Tasso and others ) . More important , because Paradise Lost retells the story of the first three chapters of Genesis and because Milton deliberately ...
... literature of creation or Hexemeral literature , such as poems written by Du Bartas and Tasso and others ) . More important , because Paradise Lost retells the story of the first three chapters of Genesis and because Milton deliberately ...
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... literature available to him , a " ceaselesse round of study and reading " ( Prose , 1 : 891 ) . In Of Education , Milton advocates reading critics to ballast literature with theory : “ which in Aristotles poetics , in Horace , and the ...
... literature available to him , a " ceaselesse round of study and reading " ( Prose , 1 : 891 ) . In Of Education , Milton advocates reading critics to ballast literature with theory : “ which in Aristotles poetics , in Horace , and the ...
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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