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... speech near the be- ginning of Book I , Milton's narrator follows it with the laconic comment : " So spake th ' Apostate Angel , though in pain , Vaunting aloud , but rackt with deep despair " ( I , 125–26 ) . Fish notes , as have ...
... speech near the be- ginning of Book I , Milton's narrator follows it with the laconic comment : " So spake th ' Apostate Angel , though in pain , Vaunting aloud , but rackt with deep despair " ( I , 125–26 ) . Fish notes , as have ...
Page 104
... Speech in Paradise is perceptibly different from speech in the fallen world : " Adam from the depth of his inexperience is lavishly sententious . " 12 The suspicion must arise in the reader that the first exchange between Adam and Eve ...
... Speech in Paradise is perceptibly different from speech in the fallen world : " Adam from the depth of his inexperience is lavishly sententious . " 12 The suspicion must arise in the reader that the first exchange between Adam and Eve ...
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... speech these words are not only endowed with the dignity of finality but are also embedded in personal experience of the profoundest sort . Every phrase echoes in our memories as emblematic of some phase of Adam's grueling experience ...
... speech these words are not only endowed with the dignity of finality but are also embedded in personal experience of the profoundest sort . Every phrase echoes in our memories as emblematic of some phase of Adam's grueling experience ...
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