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... Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry broke new ground fifty years ago , yet it remains unsurpassed in providing a learned over- view of Milton's splendid functional uses of classical myth.4 Bush's attempt to view ...
... Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry broke new ground fifty years ago , yet it remains unsurpassed in providing a learned over- view of Milton's splendid functional uses of classical myth.4 Bush's attempt to view ...
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... myth and history . In Milton's allusion to the myth , in contrast , prolepsis achieves a widening signification . C. S. Lewis explained this feature of Milton's style as a physical principle , “ the power of action at a distance . " 10 ...
... myth and history . In Milton's allusion to the myth , in contrast , prolepsis achieves a widening signification . C. S. Lewis explained this feature of Milton's style as a physical principle , “ the power of action at a distance . " 10 ...
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... myth because of the way human beings behave , but partly causes us to take the myth somewhat skeptically because the narrator does . Whether humorously or judgmentally , the narrator is arguing for the principle of individual ...
... myth because of the way human beings behave , but partly causes us to take the myth somewhat skeptically because the narrator does . Whether humorously or judgmentally , the narrator is arguing for the principle of individual ...
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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