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Page 117
... passage an objectionable instance of the overarching “ tech- nique of degradation ” aimed at Satan : " To attempt to link such a scene as this with what happens in the first two books of Paradise Lost is to try to bring incommensurables ...
... passage an objectionable instance of the overarching “ tech- nique of degradation ” aimed at Satan : " To attempt to link such a scene as this with what happens in the first two books of Paradise Lost is to try to bring incommensurables ...
Page 196
... passage , its lexical complexities - resonant puns , emotional ambiguity , rapid shifts in action and perspective — may strike some readers as fea- tures associated more with metaphysical wit than with the “ grand ” Miltonic style ...
... passage , its lexical complexities - resonant puns , emotional ambiguity , rapid shifts in action and perspective — may strike some readers as fea- tures associated more with metaphysical wit than with the “ grand ” Miltonic style ...
Page 197
... passage is reflected in three areas : the actual metamorphosis , the emphasis on the " wonder " of this change , and the exuberant wordplay . We have already examined the counterheroic effect of this metamorphosis on the characteriza ...
... passage is reflected in three areas : the actual metamorphosis , the emphasis on the " wonder " of this change , and the exuberant wordplay . We have already examined the counterheroic effect of this metamorphosis on the characteriza ...
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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