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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... traditional heroic a tion in Milton's poem . At this crossroads , all other critics will choo between Milton's independence of thought , style , and action or reliance upon tradition . What all critics will agree upon is that M ton's ...
... traditional heroic a tion in Milton's poem . At this crossroads , all other critics will choo between Milton's independence of thought , style , and action or reliance upon tradition . What all critics will agree upon is that M ton's ...
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... tradition and the grand style short , Milton has become the two parts of the modern mind : Sa and God , subjective and objective . The rejecters of the orthodox N ton would probably agree with Blake : “ We do not want either Gr or Roman ...
... tradition and the grand style short , Milton has become the two parts of the modern mind : Sa and God , subjective and objective . The rejecters of the orthodox N ton would probably agree with Blake : “ We do not want either Gr or Roman ...
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... Tradition . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1968 . Peter , John . A Critique of Paradise Lost . London : Longmans ; New York : Co- lumbia University Press , 1960. Did Milton nod ? PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of ...
... Tradition . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1968 . Peter , John . A Critique of Paradise Lost . London : Longmans ; New York : Co- lumbia University Press , 1960. Did Milton nod ? PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of ...
Contents
Historical Context | 1 |
Importance of the Work | 6 |
Critical Reception | 12 |
Copyright | |
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