Milton and Ovid |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 31
Page 48
... depiction of evil as " Self - fed and self- consum'd " is Ovid's depiction of Scylla , whose loins Circe trans- formed into ravenous beasts : Scylla venit mediaque tenus descenderat alvo , cum sua foedari latrantibus inguina monstris ...
... depiction of evil as " Self - fed and self- consum'd " is Ovid's depiction of Scylla , whose loins Circe trans- formed into ravenous beasts : Scylla venit mediaque tenus descenderat alvo , cum sua foedari latrantibus inguina monstris ...
Page 100
... depiction of the mental process that takes Eve from innocence to sin . To notice where the similarities break down , primarily in Eve's progress by repentance to a new model of heroism , should enable us to fix the limits of the overlap ...
... depiction of the mental process that takes Eve from innocence to sin . To notice where the similarities break down , primarily in Eve's progress by repentance to a new model of heroism , should enable us to fix the limits of the overlap ...
Page 171
... depict their responses to epic characters selectively and sporadically.39 Sporadically is not ran- domly : The patterns ... depiction of authorial response , his extensive addresses to the reader differentiate his narrative presence from ...
... depict their responses to epic characters selectively and sporadically.39 Sporadically is not ran- domly : The patterns ... depiction of authorial response , his extensive addresses to the reader differentiate his narrative presence from ...
Common terms and phrases
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