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... gods is linked more closely with the first part of the poem than we would assume . The sense of loss that is associated with the false gods can be seen even in the coming of the true God . For sixteen of its thirty - two stanzas , the ...
... gods is linked more closely with the first part of the poem than we would assume . The sense of loss that is associated with the false gods can be seen even in the coming of the true God . For sixteen of its thirty - two stanzas , the ...
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... gods . We can thus banish the " sacredness " of these gods without at the same time banishing their loveliness . But realizing , perhaps , that if these gods are banished they are banished as indivisible entities with their true ...
... gods . We can thus banish the " sacredness " of these gods without at the same time banishing their loveliness . But realizing , perhaps , that if these gods are banished they are banished as indivisible entities with their true ...
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... God has forsaken him , Samson quickly offers a second answer : a challenge directed at Harapha " to the trial of mortal fight / By combat to decide whose god is God . " For it is clear that in this particular context Harapha can be ...
... God has forsaken him , Samson quickly offers a second answer : a challenge directed at Harapha " to the trial of mortal fight / By combat to decide whose god is God . " For it is clear that in this particular context Harapha can be ...
Contents
Miltons Beliefs and Contextualist Criticism | 3 |
The Nativity Ode and the Pagan Deities | 10 |
Lycidas and the Problem of Belief | 21 |
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