Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty |
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Page 82
... chaos at the heart of all Asiatic regimes is delicately revealed in a complex of mili- tary images . Satan , having completed his charming reunion with Sin and Death , returns to Hell , to find nobody there to greet him , the fiends ...
... chaos at the heart of all Asiatic regimes is delicately revealed in a complex of mili- tary images . Satan , having completed his charming reunion with Sin and Death , returns to Hell , to find nobody there to greet him , the fiends ...
Page 95
... Chaos , but which can use chaos for its own ends , stands in opposition to the barbarous riches of the east , shower- ing gold upon her kings ( 2.4 ) like a prodigy of nature . In Milton's adaptation of the motif to his poem , the ...
... Chaos , but which can use chaos for its own ends , stands in opposition to the barbarous riches of the east , shower- ing gold upon her kings ( 2.4 ) like a prodigy of nature . In Milton's adaptation of the motif to his poem , the ...
Page 133
... Chaos from which it was formulated . 13 Book 5 of Paradise Lost is supremely a statement about the order upon which Creation is founded , focused against Chaos , which is raw and void . Milton made this explicit by having Raphael open ...
... Chaos from which it was formulated . 13 Book 5 of Paradise Lost is supremely a statement about the order upon which Creation is founded , focused against Chaos , which is raw and void . Milton made this explicit by having Raphael open ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's allusion anointing army barbarian barbarous Beelzebub Book Caesar Chaos chariot Christ Christian Christopher Hill civil coronation Cromwell Death Defence divine earth earthly Eikon Basiliké Eikonoklastes emblem emperor emphasized empire English epic epic similes Eve's evil fall fallen angels father feudal glory God's gold Heaven heavenly Hell human king ibid imagined imperial implied John Milton justice king's kingship liberty Lord majesty Milton's God Milton's poem mind Moloch monarchy moral nature Nimrod Paradise Lost pattern Persians Pharaoh poet poet's poetic poetry political present prose Psalm Puritan Raphael reader rebel rebellion regicide reign relationship Renaissance ritual Roman royal Royalist rule Satan scourge sense simile Solomon speech spirit structure Stuart subjects sultan symbolism thee thir thou throne tion triumph triumphal Turkish Turkish crescent Turks tyranny tyrant University victory Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos virtue vision Yale