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Page 66
... poet lives in a world as visually rich as any we could wish for ourselves . And thus the grand imaginative journey out of Hell's darkness into celestial light is paralleled by a more personal , far humbler , metaphoric " journey of the poet ...
... poet lives in a world as visually rich as any we could wish for ourselves . And thus the grand imaginative journey out of Hell's darkness into celestial light is paralleled by a more personal , far humbler , metaphoric " journey of the poet ...
Page 68
... poet's loss of physical sight is taken as a sign of his enhanced powers of spiritual vision . In the figure of the blind poet may lie an invitation to the reader to " blind " himself to the sights of the visible world in order to see ...
... poet's loss of physical sight is taken as a sign of his enhanced powers of spiritual vision . In the figure of the blind poet may lie an invitation to the reader to " blind " himself to the sights of the visible world in order to see ...
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... poet speaks of “ my advent'rous Song " and asks the muse to “ instruct me . " Who is singing , Milton or the muse ? Further invocations only perpetuate the ambiguity . In the prologue to Book III the poet asks to be shown " things ...
... poet speaks of “ my advent'rous Song " and asks the muse to “ instruct me . " Who is singing , Milton or the muse ? Further invocations only perpetuate the ambiguity . In the prologue to Book III the poet asks to be shown " things ...
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