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... imagine such a reader - a back- woods fundamentalist , say , unfamiliar with imaginative literature and hence unused to distinguishing between fictional characters ( Milton's " Satan " ) and real ones ( Satan ) . What is impossible to ...
... imagine such a reader - a back- woods fundamentalist , say , unfamiliar with imaginative literature and hence unused to distinguishing between fictional characters ( Milton's " Satan " ) and real ones ( Satan ) . What is impossible to ...
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... imagine Eden by offering names barely less fabulous , so that it will shimmer in our minds over a not - quite - visible topography in a remote and unfamiliar section of the world . If his list of vanished cities evokes anything , it is ...
... imagine Eden by offering names barely less fabulous , so that it will shimmer in our minds over a not - quite - visible topography in a remote and unfamiliar section of the world . If his list of vanished cities evokes anything , it is ...
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Robert Crosman. ognizes that he cannot imagine or understand " hate in Heav'n , " but re- mains unshaken in his love of God . Thus , at the end of Book VI our superiority to Adam actually becomes a liability , as we discover that while ...
Robert Crosman. ognizes that he cannot imagine or understand " hate in Heav'n , " but re- mains unshaken in his love of God . Thus , at the end of Book VI our superiority to Adam actually becomes a liability , as we discover that while ...
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