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Page 38
... angels , who enter the poem imagined as barely animate and who then end the progression figured as human warriors . Milton's art , like an " Optic glass , " brings them closer to us . As with Satan , who is “ described " principally in ...
... angels , who enter the poem imagined as barely animate and who then end the progression figured as human warriors . Milton's art , like an " Optic glass , " brings them closer to us . As with Satan , who is “ described " principally in ...
Page 52
... angels , nor of Pandaemo- nium , would have had no trouble imagining the palace as large enough to contain all of them . By shrinking his fallen angels , Milton hasn't solved the problem of scale so much as he has pointed out that the ...
... angels , nor of Pandaemo- nium , would have had no trouble imagining the palace as large enough to contain all of them . By shrinking his fallen angels , Milton hasn't solved the problem of scale so much as he has pointed out that the ...
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... angels fought against the dragon ; and the dragon fought and his angels , and prevailed not ; neither was their place found any more in heaven . And the great dragon was cast out , that old ser- pent , called the Devil , and Satan ...
... angels fought against the dragon ; and the dragon fought and his angels , and prevailed not ; neither was their place found any more in heaven . And the great dragon was cast out , that old ser- pent , called the Devil , and Satan ...
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