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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... subjective in a religious sense , and almost all the other poets of the early seventeenth century wrote religious verse . It was a turning in- ward in order to contemplate the inner self , as Descartes had turned philosophy inward and ...
... subjective in a religious sense , and almost all the other poets of the early seventeenth century wrote religious verse . It was a turning in- ward in order to contemplate the inner self , as Descartes had turned philosophy inward and ...
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... subjective is the response to a great work of art ? Is reputation everything , as with the case of the tired tourist who feels enraptured because he has seen a da Vinci , but who was actually mistakenly looking at a hack work beside it ...
... subjective is the response to a great work of art ? Is reputation everything , as with the case of the tired tourist who feels enraptured because he has seen a da Vinci , but who was actually mistakenly looking at a hack work beside it ...
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... subjective , probing what Milt " really did . " Those critics following the subjective methods opened by Blake will have their major interest in what they find between t lines of text ; they will psychologize beneath the surface . The ...
... subjective , probing what Milt " really did . " Those critics following the subjective methods opened by Blake will have their major interest in what they find between t lines of text ; they will psychologize beneath the surface . The ...
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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