The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 12
... possess and all we can acquire from scholarship ; but we must beware that it does not blind us . The dangers of scholarship and of genre criticism are that they may lead us to believe that we know what we shall find before we find it ...
... possess and all we can acquire from scholarship ; but we must beware that it does not blind us . The dangers of scholarship and of genre criticism are that they may lead us to believe that we know what we shall find before we find it ...
Page 83
... possess the superhuman capacities for neither good nor evil which Satan and Gabriel and Raphael possess , and despite all their carefully delineated attributes which later bear fruit , there is nothing in the poem to indicate that ...
... possess the superhuman capacities for neither good nor evil which Satan and Gabriel and Raphael possess , and despite all their carefully delineated attributes which later bear fruit , there is nothing in the poem to indicate that ...
Page 218
... possessed at moments with " joy and wonder . " But time and life continue and actions must be per- formed when the vision is not immediately present , but possessed in memory and faith . This is the field 218 THE MUSE'S METHOD.
... possessed at moments with " joy and wonder . " But time and life continue and actions must be per- formed when the vision is not immediately present , but possessed in memory and faith . This is the field 218 THE MUSE'S METHOD.
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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