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... poem— Addison found Book VII ' wonderfully sublime ' but lacking in action , and Johnson noted how the subject ' admits no human manners till the Fall ' so that ' the want of human interest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the ...
... poem— Addison found Book VII ' wonderfully sublime ' but lacking in action , and Johnson noted how the subject ' admits no human manners till the Fall ' so that ' the want of human interest is always felt . Paradise Lost is one of the ...
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... poem had now crumbled . Since Blake , it has been a persistently offered account . The Victorian critic Walter Bagehot found a disjunction between the poem's ' theme ' of obedi- ence and Milton's ' real sympathy ' making him ' side with ...
... poem had now crumbled . Since Blake , it has been a persistently offered account . The Victorian critic Walter Bagehot found a disjunction between the poem's ' theme ' of obedi- ence and Milton's ' real sympathy ' making him ' side with ...
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... poem progressed ; he argued , too , that Milton was confused in presenting Adam as falling from human love . While ... poem in the way Waldock and Peter had done ; but his conclusion is that if God seems to lie or contradict himself , if ...
... poem progressed ; he argued , too , that Milton was confused in presenting Adam as falling from human love . While ... poem in the way Waldock and Peter had done ; but his conclusion is that if God seems to lie or contradict himself , if ...
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action Adam and Eve Adam's Addison ambiguity argued argument beauty becomes bliss Book burning lake C. S. Lewis certainly Christ Christopher Ricks classical comparison complex contrast corruption created creation dance darkness Death degradation described destruction devils E. M. W. Tillyard Earth eating the fruit echo emphasized Empson epic hero Eve's evil evoke eyes F. R. Leavis Fall fallen angels fallen world flowers forbidden garden glory God's happiness Heaven Helen Gardner Hell heroic heroism human idea imagery implication innocence insist irony knowledge Leavis light man's merely metaphorical Milton Milton Criticism Milton's God moral narrative nature omnipotent Pandæmonium Paradise Lost parody passage pattern poem poem's poetry Poets Preface to Paradise presented Raphael reader redemption reminds rhetoric richness Satan says scheme seems serpent Seventeenth Century shows similes speech suggests T. S. Eliot thee theme theological thir thou traditional tragic tree unfallen Waldock words