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... Creation's first day than the Authorized Version , but there is of course a substantial difference between them in underlying philosophy . The King James version is designedly “ primitive ” in flavor : its simple vocabulary , its verbal ...
... Creation's first day than the Authorized Version , but there is of course a substantial difference between them in underlying philosophy . The King James version is designedly “ primitive ” in flavor : its simple vocabulary , its verbal ...
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... Creation in terms of seventeenth - century logic and science . Moses's Creation is accommodated to a " primitive , " childlike audience ; Raphael's is accom- modated to a more grown - up audience : Adam - or us . Milton accordingly ...
... Creation in terms of seventeenth - century logic and science . Moses's Creation is accommodated to a " primitive , " childlike audience ; Raphael's is accom- modated to a more grown - up audience : Adam - or us . Milton accordingly ...
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... Creation is ruled by two contrasting but complementary qualities : symmetry and variety . Creation occurs by an orderly process of division into opposing qualities : chaos - order , heaven- earth , light - dark , day - night , land ...
... Creation is ruled by two contrasting but complementary qualities : symmetry and variety . Creation occurs by an orderly process of division into opposing qualities : chaos - order , heaven- earth , light - dark , day - night , land ...
Contents
Miltons Great Oxymoron Books III 19 | 60 |
Points of View in Paradise Books IVV | 85 |
Unfallen Narration Books VVI | 118 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid Areopagitica audience begins Belial Bible biblical Books XI Christian Christian Doctrine comic Creation criticism darkness death divine dramatic Earth effect entire eternal Eve's evil experience eyes F.R. Leavis fact faith Fall fallen angels Father feel fiction Fish fruit Genesis God's words grace Guillaume Du Bartas Heaven Hell hero heroic human Hymn imagine innocence interpretation John Milton light lines look man's mankind meaning Michael Milton's God Milton's narrator Milton's poem mind muse narrative narrator's omnipotent Pandaemonium paradoxes poem's poet poetic poetry point of view prologue reader reading Paradise Lost repent response role salvation Satan says scene seems sense Serpent simply song speak speech spirit Stanley Fish Stephen Booth suggests tell thee things thir thou tion tragic true truth understand unfallen University Press vision War in Heaven warning Wayne Booth Yale Milton