The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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... Man , but it is neither Man as we know him in ordinary daily life nor as he is usually treated in literature . The poem ... Man's First Dis- obedience , " and the results of that action . We are all familiar with some of the results . We ...
... Man , but it is neither Man as we know him in ordinary daily life nor as he is usually treated in literature . The poem ... Man's First Dis- obedience , " and the results of that action . We are all familiar with some of the results . We ...
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... Man's perfection is not commensurate with God's , for man is not God . Adam's account of his earliest conversation with God shows his initial perfection of reason in his recognition of the limited and the social nature of man : To ...
... Man's perfection is not commensurate with God's , for man is not God . Adam's account of his earliest conversation with God shows his initial perfection of reason in his recognition of the limited and the social nature of man : To ...
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... man's fall , that without her man could be good : But still I see the tenor of Man's woe Holds on the same , from Woman to begin . ( 632-633 ) The Angel answers , " From Man's effeminate slackness it begins " ( 634 ) . It is a precise ...
... man's fall , that without her man could be good : But still I see the tenor of Man's woe Holds on the same , from Woman to begin . ( 632-633 ) The Angel answers , " From Man's effeminate slackness it begins " ( 634 ) . It is a precise ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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