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... response : Our response [ i.e. , as modern readers ] is , I imagine , one of cautious interest . . . . But with Milton's contemporaries the response was pre- dominantly one of fear . If like Calvin they thought of Satan as “ an ene- mie ...
... response : Our response [ i.e. , as modern readers ] is , I imagine , one of cautious interest . . . . But with Milton's contemporaries the response was pre- dominantly one of fear . If like Calvin they thought of Satan as “ an ene- mie ...
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... responses , any more than authorial intention , should govern the responses of actual readers . 16 Response is precisely the realm of freedom , the part contributed not by the author but by each individual reader . How we respond to a ...
... responses , any more than authorial intention , should govern the responses of actual readers . 16 Response is precisely the realm of freedom , the part contributed not by the author but by each individual reader . How we respond to a ...
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... response of laughter at the apparent triviality of this moment in the poem , Professor Gardner asks us to suppose that Milton's intended audience was inca- pable of feeling other than a tragic stock response to Eve's sin . It is indeed ...
... response of laughter at the apparent triviality of this moment in the poem , Professor Gardner asks us to suppose that Milton's intended audience was inca- pable of feeling other than a tragic stock response to Eve's sin . It is indeed ...
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