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... voice unsettles the reader , who sees in it at least a partial challenge to his own assessment of the speech . . . . We are angry at the epic voice , not for fudging , but for being right , for insisting that we become our own critics ...
... voice unsettles the reader , who sees in it at least a partial challenge to his own assessment of the speech . . . . We are angry at the epic voice , not for fudging , but for being right , for insisting that we become our own critics ...
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... voice does not deny , we must , perforce , accept as true , however anxious and unhappy that " truth " may make us . The more Milton's narrator heaps on the flames and chains and tortures of Hell , the more appropriate seems Satan's ...
... voice does not deny , we must , perforce , accept as true , however anxious and unhappy that " truth " may make us . The more Milton's narrator heaps on the flames and chains and tortures of Hell , the more appropriate seems Satan's ...
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... voice , who at moments speaks his own views , only to turn at other moments to projecting those of drama- tized characters . It may be this nearly monolithic predominance of a single point of view that leads to the reader's feeling of ...
... voice , who at moments speaks his own views , only to turn at other moments to projecting those of drama- tized characters . It may be this nearly monolithic predominance of a single point of view that leads to the reader's feeling of ...
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