The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 22
... God's aid ; to be diffident of what His aid might accomplish would be close to blasphemy . In Paradise Lost the poet was to imitate as well as to relate the largest of God's actions . For such an enter- prise , excessive modesty on the ...
... God's aid ; to be diffident of what His aid might accomplish would be close to blasphemy . In Paradise Lost the poet was to imitate as well as to relate the largest of God's actions . For such an enter- prise , excessive modesty on the ...
Page 119
... God's power and God's providence as if he were not immediately concerned with them ; he must " see " intellectually primary historical images of God's defeat of evil and His transformation of evil into good . As Milton conceived it ...
... God's power and God's providence as if he were not immediately concerned with them ; he must " see " intellectually primary historical images of God's defeat of evil and His transformation of evil into good . As Milton conceived it ...
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... God's creation and of man's place within it , and desire so " vehement " ( based upon a sense of lack of present or ... God is not perceived as good as well as omnipotent , he may be an enemy ; and man or angel may make himself another ...
... God's creation and of man's place within it , and desire so " vehement " ( based upon a sense of lack of present or ... God is not perceived as good as well as omnipotent , he may be an enemy ; and man or angel may make himself another ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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