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... means to " tell / Of things invisi- ble to human sight . " 34 It is in this sense that Ovid's Metamorphoses provides partial but necessary illumination for Milton and his readers . Thus far I have argued that a spirit of admiring ...
... means to " tell / Of things invisi- ble to human sight . " 34 It is in this sense that Ovid's Metamorphoses provides partial but necessary illumination for Milton and his readers . Thus far I have argued that a spirit of admiring ...
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... means on Christ , Satan expresses the superior nature of this “ greater man . ” Yet Milton's allusion shows that the Metamorphoses remains late in his poetic career as a power- ful force for revealing the dissimulation of various ...
... means on Christ , Satan expresses the superior nature of this “ greater man . ” Yet Milton's allusion shows that the Metamorphoses remains late in his poetic career as a power- ful force for revealing the dissimulation of various ...
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... means of perfecting her self , of gaining “ God - head . ” If we compare Spenser's developments of the Ovidian locus amoenus with Milton's , their similar psychological and moral signifi- cance as well as their divergent implications ...
... means of perfecting her self , of gaining “ God - head . ” If we compare Spenser's developments of the Ovidian locus amoenus with Milton's , their similar psychological and moral signifi- cance as well as their divergent implications ...
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