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... become more voluminous , they support more and more different interpretations of the poetry , muddying the waters they were once intended to clear , and leading to a rush for further historical evidence and an infinite regress from the ...
... become more voluminous , they support more and more different interpretations of the poetry , muddying the waters they were once intended to clear , and leading to a rush for further historical evidence and an infinite regress from the ...
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... become more direct and " truthful , " it becomes harder to ignore the fact that we are being given pictures not of evil spirits but of evil human beings . The first , and most horrifying , description is of Moloch : First Moloch ...
... become more direct and " truthful , " it becomes harder to ignore the fact that we are being given pictures not of evil spirits but of evil human beings . The first , and most horrifying , description is of Moloch : First Moloch ...
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... becomes a surrogate for Mil- ton's reader . Book XI brings the view of man as reader , homo interpretans , out into the open , where it can become the conscious focus of our attention . The earlier story of Adam the actor , or the acted ...
... becomes a surrogate for Mil- ton's reader . Book XI brings the view of man as reader , homo interpretans , out into the open , where it can become the conscious focus of our attention . The earlier story of Adam the actor , or the acted ...
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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