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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... principle . Knowledge that others had uncovered what appeared to be the Miltonic design was encouraging and yet , since two of them were already in print , also unset- tling . Rather than put aside what I had done Preface.
... principle . Knowledge that others had uncovered what appeared to be the Miltonic design was encouraging and yet , since two of them were already in print , also unset- tling . Rather than put aside what I had done Preface.
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... knowledge and time to help me com- plete this work . In particular , I am deeply grateful to Rob- ert W. Daniel , Louis L. Martz , and Donald L. Rogan , who read various early drafts of this book and made valuable suggestions toward its ...
... knowledge and time to help me com- plete this work . In particular , I am deeply grateful to Rob- ert W. Daniel , Louis L. Martz , and Donald L. Rogan , who read various early drafts of this book and made valuable suggestions toward its ...
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... knowledge , logic , rhetoric , philoso- phy , natural and moral , and . . . that there are many mysteries contained in poetry , which of purpose were written darkly , lest by profane wits it should be abused . This is also closer to ...
... knowledge , logic , rhetoric , philoso- phy , natural and moral , and . . . that there are many mysteries contained in poetry , which of purpose were written darkly , lest by profane wits it should be abused . This is also closer to ...
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... knowledge that God continually brings good out of evil . It follows from this , I would argue , that anagogically Paradise Lost expresses the numinous world of eternal life where " no more Change shall be . " Unlike the didactic ...
... knowledge that God continually brings good out of evil . It follows from this , I would argue , that anagogically Paradise Lost expresses the numinous world of eternal life where " no more Change shall be . " Unlike the didactic ...
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... knowledge and must relearn it peren- nially . But he can learn , and that makes all the difference . The need to learn the importance of the creative act accounts , in part , for the narrative emphasis Milton places on the processes and ...
... knowledge and must relearn it peren- nially . But he can learn , and that makes all the difference . The need to learn the importance of the creative act accounts , in part , for the narrative emphasis Milton places on the processes and ...
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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...