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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... parallel in the narrator , who is also alone in a fallen world , and another parallel in Christ : the proto - conception of the hero as resister to corrupt actions taken up by the body politic . It is Abdiel's strong self - reliance in ...
... parallel in the narrator , who is also alone in a fallen world , and another parallel in Christ : the proto - conception of the hero as resister to corrupt actions taken up by the body politic . It is Abdiel's strong self - reliance in ...
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... parallels : to name one , the apple of discord that brought about the fall of Troy was like the apple that brought about the Fall of man . Sometimes the parallels are situ- ational . Virgil opens his epic with Aeneas and his crew ...
... parallels : to name one , the apple of discord that brought about the fall of Troy was like the apple that brought about the Fall of man . Sometimes the parallels are situ- ational . Virgil opens his epic with Aeneas and his crew ...
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... parallels . Sometimes delib- erate allusion appears . If , when Satan begins his journey toward earth , we did not think of Odysseus's journey in the Odyssey to his home- land , the narrator forces the parallel on our attention with a ...
... parallels . Sometimes delib- erate allusion appears . If , when Satan begins his journey toward earth , we did not think of Odysseus's journey in the Odyssey to his home- land , the narrator forces the parallel on our attention with a ...
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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