The Mystical Design of Paradise LostIdentifies and discusses the thematic and structural aspects of the circular pattern underlying Milton's epic poem to elucidate its mystical meanings. |
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... suggested , there may be an underlying pattern in Lycidas that is more fully responsible for the poem's ultimate ... suggests a more appro- priate tone for the poem than that arising from the pastoral elegy . We might say that Milton ...
... suggested , there may be an underlying pattern in Lycidas that is more fully responsible for the poem's ultimate ... suggests a more appro- priate tone for the poem than that arising from the pastoral elegy . We might say that Milton ...
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... suggests a new forward cadence ; but within the lines that lead up to it we note the anticlimactic progression in the ... suggest that Milton endeavors here , and elsewhere , to have the verbal structure emphasize the meaning , much as ...
... suggests a new forward cadence ; but within the lines that lead up to it we note the anticlimactic progression in the ... suggest that Milton endeavors here , and elsewhere , to have the verbal structure emphasize the meaning , much as ...
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... suggest certain numerical readings that are consonant with the complexity of the architectonicé of the epic that I ... suggests that the poet would have read those of his passages which were strongly numerological with a sympathetic eye ...
... suggest certain numerical readings that are consonant with the complexity of the architectonicé of the epic that I ... suggests that the poet would have read those of his passages which were strongly numerological with a sympathetic eye ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
His Circle Drawn Just | 68 |
The Interpenetration of Time and Space | 148 |
Copyright | |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid allegorical anagogical antimetabole beauty Beelzebub beginning Book VIII Book XII burning lake celestial central Christ Christopher Ricks circular Commedia concept consonant created creation creative Dante darkness dawn death defines demons discussion divine Earth emphasis eternal Eve's evil example Fall fallen angels final Galileo Galileo Galilei garden God's Heaven heavenly Hell heroic historical light lines loss Lycidas man's McColley meaning Michael Milton describes Milton's epic mystical mythic narrative nature Neoplatonic night numerological overall Paradise Lost parallels passage perfect poem poem's poet poetic poetry provides Raphael relation relationship Renaissance return to Eden rhetorical Satan Satan returns says scheme section of Book sense shape significance spatial speech Structure of Paradise Studies style suggest symbolic syntax temporal thee things thir thou tion tradition universe verbal verse paragraph verse sentence victory vision Whaler