Milton's Wisdom: Nature and Scripture in Paradise LostMilton's Wisdom examines the poet's use of the traditional notion that the eternal wisdom of God expressed itself in the "books" of nature and Scripture. It is the first study to draw attention to Milton's extensive use of biblical wisdom literature in his dramatization of Adam and Eve's education, their fall, and their reconciliation with one another and with God. The author looks at the ways theological and hence epistemological questions converge on and are generated by Adam's, Eve's, and Satan's responses to the world they see around them and to the words God and his emissaries speak to them. Reichert argues that the nature/Scripture dichotomy informs the symmetrical structure of the twelve books of Milton's epic. Milton's Wisdom challenges previous readings that have tried to ally Milton with the Puritans' strict theology of the word. Reichert has shifted our attention away from literary and historical theory and back to the experience of the poem as a whole. |
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Page 108
John Knott suggests that the use of or as a connective “ makes the parts of the landscape seem interchangeable , as if to suggest that all views are equally pleasant . " 12 It also suggests , I think , that the narrator is almost ...
John Knott suggests that the use of or as a connective “ makes the parts of the landscape seem interchangeable , as if to suggest that all views are equally pleasant . " 12 It also suggests , I think , that the narrator is almost ...
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Her syntax throughout is , like that of Milton's brief lament , simple , her rhythms lyrical , though more relaxed and luxuriant , and in the last seven lines her repeated nor's create an almost elegiac echo of his , as they suggest how ...
Her syntax throughout is , like that of Milton's brief lament , simple , her rhythms lyrical , though more relaxed and luxuriant , and in the last seven lines her repeated nor's create an almost elegiac echo of his , as they suggest how ...
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What the extent of Adam's better knowledge does suggest , I think , is the great care with which Milton approached an extraordinarily knotty problem , a problem theological in its origins but requiring a literary solution .
What the extent of Adam's better knowledge does suggest , I think , is the great care with which Milton approached an extraordinarily knotty problem , a problem theological in its origins but requiring a literary solution .
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Paradise Lost | 51 |
Meditating on the Creatures Part | 69 |
Copyright | |
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Adam and Eve Adam's angels answer appears beauty become beginning Book bring calls chapter conversation course created creation creatures death describes desire divine earth effect emphasis Eve's evil expressed eyes face fact fair faith Fall fallen Father fear feel follow fruit given gives God's grace hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven heavenly human knowledge leave light lines live look Lord meaning Michael Milton mind morning move nature once opening Paradise Lost passage perhaps phrase poem poet praise prayer present providence question Raphael reader reason receive reference Satan says Scripture seems seen sense sight speak speech spirit story suggest sweet tells thee things thou thought tree turn understanding University Press unto voice wisdom wonder words
References to this book
All in All: Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic Perspective Charles W. Durham,Kristin A. Pruitt Limited preview - 1999 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Milton's Wisdom: Nature and Scripture in Paradise Lost |
| Author | John Reichert |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 11, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0472103245, 9780472103249 |
| Length | 296 pages |
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