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... compares Adam and Eve , in prayer after the Fall , to Ovid's Deucalion and Pyrrha , in prayer after a worldwide flood . The comparison involves an antagonistic yet ambivalent correction . Adam and Eve pray humbly : yet thir port Not of ...
... compares Adam and Eve , in prayer after the Fall , to Ovid's Deucalion and Pyrrha , in prayer after a worldwide flood . The comparison involves an antagonistic yet ambivalent correction . Adam and Eve pray humbly : yet thir port Not of ...
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... compares Adam to Vertumnus , perhaps because the god's shiftiness is inappropriate to Adam's stable character , 30 When Milton compares Eve to Pomona fleeing Vertumnus , then , he depicts a moment that is not in Ovid's myth . Unless ...
... compares Adam to Vertumnus , perhaps because the god's shiftiness is inappropriate to Adam's stable character , 30 When Milton compares Eve to Pomona fleeing Vertumnus , then , he depicts a moment that is not in Ovid's myth . Unless ...
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... compares the open- ' Janette Richardson , " Virgil and Milton Once Again , " CL 14 ( 1962 ) , 321–31 . 2Alastair Fowler , ed . , “ Introduction ” to John Milton's Paradise Lost ( London , 1971 ) , p . 13 . ... ing passages of the epics ...
... compares the open- ' Janette Richardson , " Virgil and Milton Once Again , " CL 14 ( 1962 ) , 321–31 . 2Alastair Fowler , ed . , “ Introduction ” to John Milton's Paradise Lost ( London , 1971 ) , p . 13 . ... ing passages of the epics ...
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