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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... sources , even if we choose to ignore the long beard of footnotes bristling with wisdom at the foot of the pages of Paradise Lost . His story has ... sources , even challenges us to examine those sources in order to understand 117 Sources.
... sources , even if we choose to ignore the long beard of footnotes bristling with wisdom at the foot of the pages of Paradise Lost . His story has ... sources , even challenges us to examine those sources in order to understand 117 Sources.
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... sources may be said of all the sources of Paradise Lost , particularly of the next major influence— the classical epics of Homer and Virgil . Milton deliberately fused Christianity and classical antiquity , as many Renaissance writers ...
... sources may be said of all the sources of Paradise Lost , particularly of the next major influence— the classical epics of Homer and Virgil . Milton deliberately fused Christianity and classical antiquity , as many Renaissance writers ...
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... sources . One can appreciate the poem without this wealth of allusion , but the poem is thus not felt in its true depth . Paradise Lost reaches out into too many directions for any one mind to comprehend ( although tracking its signs ...
... sources . One can appreciate the poem without this wealth of allusion , but the poem is thus not felt in its true depth . Paradise Lost reaches out into too many directions for any one mind to comprehend ( although tracking its signs ...
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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