The Muse's Method: An Introduction to Paradise Lost, Volume 10Chatto & Windus, 1962 - 227 pages |
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... thought possible in two English sentences ( the later conjunctives and relatives and demonstratives tell part of the ... thought Milton deserved had he lived to read this poem . ) And although the identity of every line is insisted on by ...
... thought possible in two English sentences ( the later conjunctives and relatives and demonstratives tell part of the ... thought Milton deserved had he lived to read this poem . ) And although the identity of every line is insisted on by ...
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... thought and the emotion✓ 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 invocation , when the ten - syllable phrase and the ten - syllable ...
... thought and the emotion✓ 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 invocation , when the ten - syllable phrase and the ten - syllable ...
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... thought the Messiah was hero , and Jonathan Richard- son was sure it was Adam . Johnson remarked : " The questions , whether the action of the poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroick , and who is the hero ...
... thought the Messiah was hero , and Jonathan Richard- son was sure it was Adam . Johnson remarked : " The questions , whether the action of the poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroick , and who is the hero ...
Contents
Preface page | ix |
The Beginning | 11 |
Satan Sin and Death | 32 |
Copyright | |
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action Adam and Eve Adam's already angels appearance assume attempt become begins believe Book cause concerned continue created creation dark Death delight described desire destruction divine doubt Earth eternal Eve's evil expected experience expresses eyes fact fair faith fall fear final follow force freedom Fruit future give God's hand happy hath Heav'n Hell heroic human ignorance imagine immediate inevitably knowledge least less light lines live man's means merely Michael MICHIGAN Milton mind motions move movement nature never once opening Paradise Lost passage passion perceived perfection poem poet possess possible praise present providence question Raphael reader reality reason recognize relation reminded response Satan seems seen sense sexual sight sound speech Spirit thee things thir thou thought true turn universe vision wish