The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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Page 80
... sight and sound poetically valuable , and the practice received its justification from the perception that both sight and sound were functions of motion . The shock of the passage comes from the fact that previously in the hymn ...
... sight and sound poetically valuable , and the practice received its justification from the perception that both sight and sound were functions of motion . The shock of the passage comes from the fact that previously in the hymn ...
Page 135
... sight are " infixed " in their souls , where no subterfuges or stratagems are possible ; they carry absolute conviction . And they see that they are seen ; they perceive this absolute power as alien to them and as hostile . They know ...
... sight are " infixed " in their souls , where no subterfuges or stratagems are possible ; they carry absolute conviction . And they see that they are seen ; they perceive this absolute power as alien to them and as hostile . They know ...
Page 196
... sight and by his trance . The visions in Book XI are of " one world , " extending from Adam's sons to the destruction of that world in Noah's Flood . There are six : Cain and Abel ; the lazar house with its general vision of death ; the ...
... sight and by his trance . The visions in Book XI are of " one world , " extending from Adam's sons to the destruction of that world in Noah's Flood . There are six : Cain and Abel ; the lazar house with its general vision of death ; the ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
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