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... Raphael's story gives us a different understanding of Sa- tan's nature that helps us to see the flaws in our initial view of him . When the attempt to apply epic norms to the true issues of Paradise Lost ends in absurdity , it is not ...
... Raphael's story gives us a different understanding of Sa- tan's nature that helps us to see the flaws in our initial view of him . When the attempt to apply epic norms to the true issues of Paradise Lost ends in absurdity , it is not ...
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... Raphael's narration to reveal the face of the poet behind the angelic mask . Raphael's claim to speak truly is after all no better than Milton's claim to divine inspiration : if Milton errs , Raphael necessarily does so , too . The muse ...
... Raphael's narration to reveal the face of the poet behind the angelic mask . Raphael's claim to speak truly is after all no better than Milton's claim to divine inspiration : if Milton errs , Raphael necessarily does so , too . The muse ...
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... Raphael's Hymn to Creation ( VII , 131–634 ) is also the most obvious — that it is a paraphrase , or more properly an amplification , of the first chapter of Genesis . No reader na- tive to Western culture , no matter how sheltered his ...
... Raphael's Hymn to Creation ( VII , 131–634 ) is also the most obvious — that it is a paraphrase , or more properly an amplification , of the first chapter of Genesis . No reader na- tive to Western culture , no matter how sheltered his ...
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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