Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty |
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... kingship , contradicted by the right hand of poetry in favor of divine kingship of the most absolute kind . This reading also seems truer to some of the facts of the poem in acknowledging the monarchical images , allusions , and ...
... kingship , contradicted by the right hand of poetry in favor of divine kingship of the most absolute kind . This reading also seems truer to some of the facts of the poem in acknowledging the monarchical images , allusions , and ...
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... kingship that raises him above all others , but it is also ( as Abdiel will later tell Satan ) to a reduction that is at the same time a humiliation . The encircling angels , accepting their feudal obli- gation to the monarch , act as ...
... kingship that raises him above all others , but it is also ( as Abdiel will later tell Satan ) to a reduction that is at the same time a humiliation . The encircling angels , accepting their feudal obli- gation to the monarch , act as ...
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... king- ship into close and deep relationship to this vein of poetic rich- ness , the poet transforms our conception of kingship so as to scour the connotations of artifice , subjection , and sophistica- tion and attach instead nature ...
... king- ship into close and deep relationship to this vein of poetic rich- ness , the poet transforms our conception of kingship so as to scour the connotations of artifice , subjection , and sophistica- tion and attach instead nature ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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