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... Satan's character involves various literary materials and methods , the pattern of Ovidian references and analogues is central to the presentation of Satan as a counterheroic figure.7 " Counterheroic " describes the semblance of heroic ...
... Satan's character involves various literary materials and methods , the pattern of Ovidian references and analogues is central to the presentation of Satan as a counterheroic figure.7 " Counterheroic " describes the semblance of heroic ...
Page 114
... Satan's projection of heroism reflects . Satan's aim is essentially negative : to discredit or destroy the grandeur of God and his cre- ation . Because he cannot conquer or equal God's absolute good- ness , he takes a contrary position ...
... Satan's projection of heroism reflects . Satan's aim is essentially negative : to discredit or destroy the grandeur of God and his cre- ation . Because he cannot conquer or equal God's absolute good- ness , he takes a contrary position ...
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... Satan began have simply no meeting - point . " 17 Wal- dock's certainty that the Satan of the opening books is incompatible with the Satan of later books does not , however , explain why Satan . is degraded instead of degenerate . A ...
... Satan began have simply no meeting - point . " 17 Wal- dock's certainty that the Satan of the opening books is incompatible with the Satan of later books does not , however , explain why Satan . is degraded instead of degenerate . A ...
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneas Aeneid allegorical argument Baucis and Philemon beauty Book Cadmus Ceres Chapter characters Christian classical epic Comus counterheroic critics depiction described Deucalion devils dialogue with Ovid divine Echo English epic poet episode Eve's Faerie Queene Fall fallen angels Garden of Adonis genre Giraldi gods Heaven hero heroic heroism Homer human imitation John Milton Latin literary Martz masque Medea Meta Metamorphoses Milton and Ovid Milton's allusions Milton's epic Miltonic narrator moral morphoses Muse myth Narcissus narrative narrator's Orpheus Ovid Ovid's Ovid's fables Ovid's Metamorphoses Ovid's poem Ovidian Ovidian figures pagan Paradise Lost passage Poet of Exile poet's poetic poetry Pomona Proserpina Pyrrha Pythagoras reader reading Renaissance response revaluation rhetorical Satan scene Scylla sense serpent simile song speech Spenser spirit story structure style suggests Tasso Tereus thou tion tradition transformation verse Vertumnus Virgil Wittreich words