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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... metaphorical approach to it . The Bible is a metaphor of the truth ( Christian Doc- trine , Prose , 6 : 133 ) . In 4 PARADISE LOST.
... metaphorical approach to it . The Bible is a metaphor of the truth ( Christian Doc- trine , Prose , 6 : 133 ) . In 4 PARADISE LOST.
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... metaphor . Earlier I noted Milton's conception of the truth of the Bible being metaphorical through the Theory of Accommodation . Poetry , too , is metaphorical because it makes truth palatable : " ... to those especially of soft and ...
... metaphor . Earlier I noted Milton's conception of the truth of the Bible being metaphorical through the Theory of Accommodation . Poetry , too , is metaphorical because it makes truth palatable : " ... to those especially of soft and ...
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... metaphor through which we are to understand the nature of God . If the Bible is a metaphor , then Milton , if he is truly inspired to write the poem , can create his metaphor , Paradise Lost , from the spir- itual truths he intuits ...
... metaphor through which we are to understand the nature of God . If the Bible is a metaphor , then Milton , if he is truly inspired to write the poem , can create his metaphor , Paradise Lost , from the spir- itual truths he intuits ...
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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