The Mystical Design of Paradise LostBucknell University Press, 1975 - 194 sider Identifies and discusses the thematic and structural aspects of the circular pattern underlying Milton's epic poem to elucidate its mystical meanings. |
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Side 16
... emphasis on this form . As Joseph Wittreich has suggested , there may be an underlying pattern in Lycidas that is more fully responsible for the poem's ultimate aesthetic and mystical power.1 Al- though Wittreich himself does not ...
... emphasis on this form . As Joseph Wittreich has suggested , there may be an underlying pattern in Lycidas that is more fully responsible for the poem's ultimate aesthetic and mystical power.1 Al- though Wittreich himself does not ...
Side 17
... emphasize is that Milton seems successfully to have given shape to Lycidas , the later poem , and failed to do so in the earlier ones . Clearly , Milton thought in terms of poetic structures at least as much as he did in terms of genre ...
... emphasize is that Milton seems successfully to have given shape to Lycidas , the later poem , and failed to do so in the earlier ones . Clearly , Milton thought in terms of poetic structures at least as much as he did in terms of genre ...
Side 25
... emphasis on the accounts of the 1. The Sermons of John Donne , ed . E. M. Simpson and George R. Porter ( Berke- ley , 1953 ) , vi . 173 . 2. St. Thomas Aquinas , In Librum B. Dionysii de Divinis Nominibus , caput iv . lectio 7. Also see ...
... emphasis on the accounts of the 1. The Sermons of John Donne , ed . E. M. Simpson and George R. Porter ( Berke- ley , 1953 ) , vi . 173 . 2. St. Thomas Aquinas , In Librum B. Dionysii de Divinis Nominibus , caput iv . lectio 7. Also see ...
Side 28
... emphasis Milton places on the processes and moments of creation related to his poem . In contrast to the inorganic or destructive activities of Satan and his crew " creating " the first cannon and build- ing Pandemonium , of Sin's ...
... emphasis Milton places on the processes and moments of creation related to his poem . In contrast to the inorganic or destructive activities of Satan and his crew " creating " the first cannon and build- ing Pandemonium , of Sin's ...
Side 32
... emphasis is on " opening , " " spreading , " " freeing . " These are the aspects of birth that symbolize for Milton the es- sence of being under God . Though Raphael tells Adam and Eve of God's Creation , we witness , of course ...
... emphasis is on " opening , " " spreading , " " freeing . " These are the aspects of birth that symbolize for Milton the es- sence of being under God . Though Raphael tells Adam and Eve of God's Creation , we witness , of course ...
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His Circle Drawn Just | 68 |
The Interpenetration of Time and Space | 148 |
Conclusion | 182 |
Selected Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 191 |
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Abdiel Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid allegorical anagogical antimetabole beauty Beelzebub beginning Book VIII Book XII burning lake celestial central Christ Christopher Ricks circular Commedia concept consonant created creation creative Dante darkness dawn death defines demons discussion divine Earth emphasis eternal Eve's evil example Fall fallen angels final Galileo Galileo Galilei garden God's Heaven heavenly Hell heroic historical light lines loss Lycidas man's McColley meaning Michael Milton describes Milton's epic mystical mythic narrative nature Neoplatonic night numerological overall Paradise Lost parallels passage perfect poem poem's poet poetic poetry provides Raphael relation relationship Renaissance return to Eden rhetorical Satan Satan returns says scheme section of Book sense shape significance spatial speech Structure of Paradise Studies style suggest symbolic syntax temporal thee things thir thou tion tradition universe verbal verse paragraph verse sentence victory vision Whaler
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Side 50 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Side 42 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Side 36 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Side 134 - From their Creator, and transgress his will For one restraint, lords of the world besides * Who first seduced them to that foul revolt...
Side 130 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse...
Side 61 - Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there: be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee, and thy being: Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there live, in what state, condition or degree; Contented that thus far hath been reveal'd Not of earth only, but of highest heaven.
Side 37 - O goodness infinite, goodness immense ! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good ; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness ! Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done, and occasion'd, or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring ; To God more glory, more good-will to men From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.
Side 37 - Round through the vast profundity obscure ; And said, Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O World...