The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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... freedom , of a verse whose rhythms are controlled only by the thought and the emotionâś“ expressed . But the reader is pushed constantly forward ; he is not allowed to come to rest until the end of line 26 , the com- pletion of the ...
... freedom , of a verse whose rhythms are controlled only by the thought and the emotionâś“ expressed . But the reader is pushed constantly forward ; he is not allowed to come to rest until the end of line 26 , the com- pletion of the ...
Page 149
... freedom - freedom to know , to feel , to respond , as well as freedom to act and to fall . We have already noted some of the ways in which the poem presents perfection as moving rather than static , as relative rather than absolute ...
... freedom - freedom to know , to feel , to respond , as well as freedom to act and to fall . We have already noted some of the ways in which the poem presents perfection as moving rather than static , as relative rather than absolute ...
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... freedom . For man to desire or to pursue either death or simple duration as his final good is for him to distort his nature , to lose his freedom , to become lost in anxieties more paralysing than any which Adam has yet known . " Nor ...
... freedom . For man to desire or to pursue either death or simple duration as his final good is for him to distort his nature , to lose his freedom , to become lost in anxieties more paralysing than any which Adam has yet known . " Nor ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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