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Page 96
... Knowledge grew fast by , Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill . ( IV , 214–22 ) The garden is " pleasant , " the Tree of Life is " noble , " " eminent , " and its fruit is " Ambrosial " ( tastes and smells good ) , but this ...
... Knowledge grew fast by , Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill . ( IV , 214–22 ) The garden is " pleasant , " the Tree of Life is " noble , " " eminent , " and its fruit is " Ambrosial " ( tastes and smells good ) , but this ...
Page 123
... knowledge we have but Adam as yet does not - both the fact of man's impending fall and the events and characters of Books I - III — we are also superior to Adam in knowledge and insight . Our mood is relaxed , contemplative . Some ...
... knowledge we have but Adam as yet does not - both the fact of man's impending fall and the events and characters of Books I - III — we are also superior to Adam in knowledge and insight . Our mood is relaxed , contemplative . Some ...
Page 158
... knowledge of God . " Adam begins his life with this intuitive knowledge , as does Milton his poem . Adam is now both narrator and protagonist of his story , giving us the most immediate view imaginable of events already familiar to us ...
... knowledge of God . " Adam begins his life with this intuitive knowledge , as does Milton his poem . Adam is now both narrator and protagonist of his story , giving us the most immediate view imaginable of events already familiar to us ...
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