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 25
Page 96
... narrator . Adam's reception of his insightful vision is exactly what the narrator prays for . The narrator describes the event : Michael from Adam's eyes the Film remov'd Which that false Fruit that promis'd clearer sight Had bred ...
... narrator . Adam's reception of his insightful vision is exactly what the narrator prays for . The narrator describes the event : Michael from Adam's eyes the Film remov'd Which that false Fruit that promis'd clearer sight Had bred ...
Page 97
... narrator receives his wish by being inspired to sing of spiritual events and by having the help of two celestial narrators , Raphael and Michael , who inform the narrator as well as being his characters . Mi- chael's revelation to Adam ...
... narrator receives his wish by being inspired to sing of spiritual events and by having the help of two celestial narrators , Raphael and Michael , who inform the narrator as well as being his characters . Mi- chael's revelation to Adam ...
Page 99
... narrator can hardly be neu- tral . Nor is neutrality always a good literary strategy . The narrator adds a dramatic dimension to the poem , a center whose experience radiates throughout history , throughout his own life and times , and ...
... narrator can hardly be neu- tral . Nor is neutrality always a good literary strategy . The narrator adds a dramatic dimension to the poem , a center whose experience radiates throughout history , throughout his own life and times , and ...
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