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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... mind but the artistic mind as well . Though Shakespeare exerted an influence through the body of his work , he had no worthy imitators ; Milton through the less diffuse influence of one major poem helped many later poets to create . By ...
... mind but the artistic mind as well . Though Shakespeare exerted an influence through the body of his work , he had no worthy imitators ; Milton through the less diffuse influence of one major poem helped many later poets to create . By ...
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... mind because Milton had appeared to him many times in visions . Blake's antipathy to authority , reason , the classics , and his own his- torical moment produced an inverse Milton , whose true hero is Satan , the representation of the ...
... mind because Milton had appeared to him many times in visions . Blake's antipathy to authority , reason , the classics , and his own his- torical moment produced an inverse Milton , whose true hero is Satan , the representation of the ...
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... mind the art that cre- ated him : Milton was grappling with his own creation . But the focus of the poem is the Fall . Satan is always seen in relation to that event , not as a separate force contending with God , a Christian Prometheus ...
... mind the art that cre- ated him : Milton was grappling with his own creation . But the focus of the poem is the Fall . Satan is always seen in relation to that event , not as a separate force contending with God , a Christian Prometheus ...
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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