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Page 26
... truth . Art is fiction , fable , illusion , lies ; Christianity is Truth . Real- izing that art can often influence man's emotional nature in a way that bare truth cannot , even strict Puritans allowed some latitude for the arts of ...
... truth . Art is fiction , fable , illusion , lies ; Christianity is Truth . Real- izing that art can often influence man's emotional nature in a way that bare truth cannot , even strict Puritans allowed some latitude for the arts of ...
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... Truth herselfe unlesse they see her elegantly drest , " as a younger Milton put it . 10 Yet , since there is no way to " dress " Truth without disguising her , a holy poet is one who brings us from an initial admiration of the elegant ...
... Truth herselfe unlesse they see her elegantly drest , " as a younger Milton put it . 10 Yet , since there is no way to " dress " Truth without disguising her , a holy poet is one who brings us from an initial admiration of the elegant ...
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... truth . Under the hypothesis that Milton's inspiration proceeds from God , all of his lies point toward truth ; his visions of Hell , Heaven , and Eden , all literally " fabrications " ( interpretations of holy writ eked out with ...
... truth . Under the hypothesis that Milton's inspiration proceeds from God , all of his lies point toward truth ; his visions of Hell , Heaven , and Eden , all literally " fabrications " ( interpretations of holy writ eked out with ...
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