Paradise Lost (Hughes Edition)Since its publication by Odyssey Press in 1935, Hughes's richly annotated edition--revised in 1962--remains the preferred text of many instructors. |
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Page xv
... God as Raphael reports it to Adam in Books V and VI , pausing to tell him of the refusal of a single seraph in the ... God's order in Book IX ; the great temptation scenes in that book ; and the hardly less psychologically interesting ...
... God as Raphael reports it to Adam in Books V and VI , pausing to tell him of the refusal of a single seraph in the ... God's order in Book IX ; the great temptation scenes in that book ; and the hardly less psychologically interesting ...
Page xxii
... gods and the Titans which Hesiod tells , and which left their marks widely in classical literature and sculpture , Milton - like most of his contemporaries— saw a survival of sacred history in the legends of the pagans . This belief was ...
... gods and the Titans which Hesiod tells , and which left their marks widely in classical literature and sculpture , Milton - like most of his contemporaries— saw a survival of sacred history in the legends of the pagans . This belief was ...
Page xxv
... God is a " fountain of light " so dazzling that the angels , who are themselves creatures of pure light , must see him only through a veil of cloud that surrounds him " like a radiant shrine " ( III , 378 ) . When he speaks ...
... God is a " fountain of light " so dazzling that the angels , who are themselves creatures of pure light , must see him only through a veil of cloud that surrounds him " like a radiant shrine " ( III , 378 ) . When he speaks ...
Page xxvi
... God's " eyes " through- out the universe in Zechariah's prophecy . And the angels in the four principal angelic ... God . " 22. Milton's Hell is more complex than his Heaven . It is local and as terribly remote from our universe as ...
... God's " eyes " through- out the universe in Zechariah's prophecy . And the angels in the four principal angelic ... God . " 22. Milton's Hell is more complex than his Heaven . It is local and as terribly remote from our universe as ...
Page xxvii
... antiquity , that in ancient times the devils deceived mankind and usurped God's worship by masquerading as the gods of the pagan world . Richard Hooker put the matter succinctly in The Laws of Ecclestiastical INTRODUCTION xxvii.
... antiquity , that in ancient times the devils deceived mankind and usurped God's worship by masquerading as the gods of the pagan world . Richard Hooker put the matter succinctly in The Laws of Ecclestiastical INTRODUCTION xxvii.
Contents
XI | 1 |
XII | 5 |
XIII | 30 |
XIV | 60 |
XV | 83 |
XVI | 113 |
XVII | 138 |
XVIII | 163 |
XIX | 183 |
XX | 202 |
XXI | 234 |
XXII | 265 |
XXIII | 290 |
XXIV | 309 |
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Adam Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid angels appear'd Areopagitica battle in Heaven Beast Beelzebub behold Belial bliss Book bright C. S. Lewis C.Ed call'd Celestial Chaos Cherubim Cloud Comus creation Creatures dark Death deep devils Divine Du Bartas dwell Earth Eternal Ev'ning evil eyes fair Faith fall Father fire Flow'rs Fruit Gates Genesis glory God's Gods grace ground hand happy hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell Hesiod highth Hill John Milton keeps its Latin King Latin Latin meaning light live Lord Nature Night Ovid Paradise Lost passage poem Psalm rais'd Raphael repli'd return'd Satan says seem'd Serpent sight soon spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence things thir thou hast thought Throne Timaeus tradition Tree turn'd VIII virtue wings words World Zeus