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... effect of intellectual terror , but only briefly . Paradise Lost is far more disorienting for a far longer time , because its unexpected configuration is not some detail of plot but its overall narrative structure . It proposes , in effect ...
... effect of intellectual terror , but only briefly . Paradise Lost is far more disorienting for a far longer time , because its unexpected configuration is not some detail of plot but its overall narrative structure . It proposes , in effect ...
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... effect of each detail is to subtract from rather than add to the effect of “ sharp , concrete realization . " The effect is precisely as Leavis describes it : “ In this Grand Style , the medium calls pervasively for a kind of attention ...
... effect of each detail is to subtract from rather than add to the effect of “ sharp , concrete realization . " The effect is precisely as Leavis describes it : “ In this Grand Style , the medium calls pervasively for a kind of attention ...
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... effect upon Adam hovers between joy and tears : [ Michael ] ceas'd , discerning Adam with such joy Surcharg'd , as ... effects of joy and grief resemble each other closely , perhaps for merely physiological rea- sons . But the link ...
... effect upon Adam hovers between joy and tears : [ Michael ] ceas'd , discerning Adam with such joy Surcharg'd , as ... effects of joy and grief resemble each other closely , perhaps for merely physiological rea- sons . But the link ...
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