The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page ix
... question about a passage , a book , a motif , or a device in the poem : why is it there ? what does it do ? how does it work ? In attempting to answer those questions , I have discovered that each concerned major aspects of Milton's ...
... question about a passage , a book , a motif , or a device in the poem : why is it there ? what does it do ? how does it work ? In attempting to answer those questions , I have discovered that each concerned major aspects of Milton's ...
Page 72
... resolved in spontaneously willed action ( cf. III . 370-371 ) . Within such " concord , " the question of the immediate origin of the wills , like the question of the origin of the motions of the sun and 72 THE MUSE'S METHOD.
... resolved in spontaneously willed action ( cf. III . 370-371 ) . Within such " concord , " the question of the immediate origin of the wills , like the question of the origin of the motions of the sun and 72 THE MUSE'S METHOD.
Page 174
... question of " force , " any more than there is a question of God's forcing Eve and Adam away from the For- bidden Fruit . But Adam abandons his reason and his authority . God has stated repeatedly the prohibition to the destructive ...
... question of " force , " any more than there is a question of God's forcing Eve and Adam away from the For- bidden Fruit . But Adam abandons his reason and his authority . God has stated repeatedly the prohibition to the destructive ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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