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... authority of scripture in describing Adam and Eve as the first man and woman . Through- out Paradise Lost Milton repeats the claim to the temporal and hence authoritative primacy of his argument ( “ Of Man's First Diso- bedience " ; my ...
... authority of scripture in describing Adam and Eve as the first man and woman . Through- out Paradise Lost Milton repeats the claim to the temporal and hence authoritative primacy of his argument ( “ Of Man's First Diso- bedience " ; my ...
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... authority to sing a carmen perpetuum from creation to his own day , Milton raises a song of universal scope , but he locates the authority and power of his epic argument outside his fallen self . Milton's reliance on the heavenly Muse ...
... authority to sing a carmen perpetuum from creation to his own day , Milton raises a song of universal scope , but he locates the authority and power of his epic argument outside his fallen self . Milton's reliance on the heavenly Muse ...
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... authority and to expose the folly of those who ignorantly , presumptively claim authority and divinity . Both impulses , but es- pecially the latter one , are at work in Milton's incorporation of Ovidian rhetoric in Satan . Niobe's ...
... authority and to expose the folly of those who ignorantly , presumptively claim authority and divinity . Both impulses , but es- pecially the latter one , are at work in Milton's incorporation of Ovidian rhetoric in Satan . Niobe's ...
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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