Arenas of Conflict: Milton and the Unfettered MindKristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham The nineteen essays in this collection explore such varied fields of argument as John Milton's authorship of the Christian Doctrine, his adaptations of source material, his engagement in political controversies, his attitudes toward gender in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, and his reflection of seventeenth-century obstetrics and anticipation of modern chaos theory in Paradise Lost. In their sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, and consistently interrogative views of Milton and his work, these essays offer an "arena of conflict" for future studies. |
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Page 162
... matter , Chaos thus provides the source of the seamless path winding from the divine skirts , " dark with excessive bright " ( 3.380 ) , to their earthly expression : the " bright consum- mate flowr " ( 5.581 ) whose " root " ( 479 ) ...
... matter , Chaos thus provides the source of the seamless path winding from the divine skirts , " dark with excessive bright " ( 3.380 ) , to their earthly expression : the " bright consum- mate flowr " ( 5.581 ) whose " root " ( 479 ) ...
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... matter all ” ( 5.472 ) —and most particularly to all spiritual bodies . Since after their creation both the perception and will of these bodies remain mutable , and since their capacity either to rise or fall remains both condi- tional ...
... matter all ” ( 5.472 ) —and most particularly to all spiritual bodies . Since after their creation both the perception and will of these bodies remain mutable , and since their capacity either to rise or fall remains both condi- tional ...
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... matter was not an evil thing , nor . . . worthless : it was good , and it contained the seeds of all subsequent good . . . a confused and disordered state at first . . . [ that ] afterwards God made . . . ordered and beautiful . " 42 ...
... matter was not an evil thing , nor . . . worthless : it was good , and it contained the seeds of all subsequent good . . . a confused and disordered state at first . . . [ that ] afterwards God made . . . ordered and beautiful . " 42 ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Miltons Transgressive Maneuvers | 21 |
Ramblings in Elucidation of the Authorship of the Christian | 41 |
Copyright | |
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