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... perhaps because literary works have been thought of as vehicles for propositions . If the point of the poem is to convey a " message , " does it matter much what stages of comprehension the reader goes through on his way to uncovering ...
... perhaps because literary works have been thought of as vehicles for propositions . If the point of the poem is to convey a " message , " does it matter much what stages of comprehension the reader goes through on his way to uncovering ...
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... perhaps only imagines he is shown , the entertaining activities of fallen angels conjuring up palaces and swarming like bees . Milton's music is " jocund , " yet it cannot entirely prevent the reader's mixing his joy at the performance ...
... perhaps only imagines he is shown , the entertaining activities of fallen angels conjuring up palaces and swarming like bees . Milton's music is " jocund , " yet it cannot entirely prevent the reader's mixing his joy at the performance ...
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Robert Crosman. have an evocativeness that Baghdad perhaps lacks , the question remains : evocative of what ? Of ... perhaps Eden's fruits were not golden . Milton does not " see " clearly in Eden , and neither do we : Betwixt them ...
Robert Crosman. have an evocativeness that Baghdad perhaps lacks , the question remains : evocative of what ? Of ... perhaps Eden's fruits were not golden . Milton does not " see " clearly in Eden , and neither do we : Betwixt them ...
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