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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... truth and wh set the divine light of reason in man . It was God who decapitated th king . And it was God who wrote ... truth but in its metaphorical approach to it . The Bible is a metaphor of the truth ( Christian Doc- trine , Prose , 6 ...
... truth and wh set the divine light of reason in man . It was God who decapitated th king . And it was God who wrote ... truth but in its metaphorical approach to it . The Bible is a metaphor of the truth ( Christian Doc- trine , Prose , 6 ...
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... truth and consolation in nature , and he teaches the reader how to feel , see , and understand the Edenic imagery in the poem . Adam must accept his return to dust , but he knows that his seed will spring forth eternal . This poetic truth ...
... truth and consolation in nature , and he teaches the reader how to feel , see , and understand the Edenic imagery in the poem . Adam must accept his return to dust , but he knows that his seed will spring forth eternal . This poetic truth ...
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... truth of the Bible being metaphorical through the Theory of Accommodation . Poetry , too , is metaphorical because it makes truth palatable : " ... to those especially of soft and delicious temper who will not so much look upon Truth ...
... truth of the Bible being metaphorical through the Theory of Accommodation . Poetry , too , is metaphorical because it makes truth palatable : " ... to those especially of soft and delicious temper who will not so much look upon Truth ...
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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