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Page 98
... moral significance of the line is radically ambiguous . If Eve , like Pomona , is fleeing her lover unwisely , then the result may be the sterility of which Vertumnus warned . If Eve , like Pomona , is seen as morally 30 Milton does ...
... moral significance of the line is radically ambiguous . If Eve , like Pomona , is fleeing her lover unwisely , then the result may be the sterility of which Vertumnus warned . If Eve , like Pomona , is seen as morally 30 Milton does ...
Page 99
... moral purity . The compression of mythological lore which the Pomona similes achieve suggests that Milton's imagination was fired by his reading of Ovid , but that his judgment found moral and aesthetic uses for the material beyond ...
... moral purity . The compression of mythological lore which the Pomona similes achieve suggests that Milton's imagination was fired by his reading of Ovid , but that his judgment found moral and aesthetic uses for the material beyond ...
Page 107
... moral , and theological stances the poem has taken . The force of Milton's co- hesive narrative , long building toward the Fall though the view- points of Satan , God , angels , and humans , pushes the reader quick- ly through these ...
... moral , and theological stances the poem has taken . The force of Milton's co- hesive narrative , long building toward the Fall though the view- points of Satan , God , angels , and humans , pushes the reader quick- ly through these ...
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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