Milton and the Miltonic DrydenHarvard University Press, 1968 - 238 pages |
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... Adam , both eating and love - making have be- come titillations of tired ... Eve have lost their first understanding of the moral or theological meanings ... Adam's power of " rightly " calling the beasts accord- ing to their natures , by ...
... Adam , both eating and love - making have be- come titillations of tired ... Eve have lost their first understanding of the moral or theological meanings ... Adam's power of " rightly " calling the beasts accord- ing to their natures , by ...
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Anne Ferry. speech has believable power to convert Adam . Yet the question remains why Milton chose to make Eve's words the human instrument of redemption when it was she who appeared most susceptible to Satanic rhetoric and when it was ...
Anne Ferry. speech has believable power to convert Adam . Yet the question remains why Milton chose to make Eve's words the human instrument of redemption when it was she who appeared most susceptible to Satanic rhetoric and when it was ...
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Anne Ferry. sin as it is acted out in the presentation of Adam and Eve after the Fall , we inevitably read the first re- demptive speech as the invention of Eve rather than of Adam . Milton prepares the reader elaborately to make this ...
Anne Ferry. sin as it is acted out in the presentation of Adam and Eve after the Fall , we inevitably read the first re- demptive speech as the invention of Eve rather than of Adam . Milton prepares the reader elaborately to make this ...
Contents
PART ONE Paradise Lost | 19 |
Satanic Rhetoric | 41 |
The Alterd Stile of Fallen Men | 69 |
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