Milton and the Miltonic DrydenHarvard University Press, 1968 - 238 pages |
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Page 103
... effect of Eve's " plaint " is the effect of grace , sudden and overpowering . Adam's " heart relented " : he is converted . His own speech becomes " peaceful " — like Eve he will " no more contend , nor blame " [ X , 958 ] -as he ...
... effect of Eve's " plaint " is the effect of grace , sudden and overpowering . Adam's " heart relented " : he is converted . His own speech becomes " peaceful " — like Eve he will " no more contend , nor blame " [ X , 958 ] -as he ...
Page 149
... effect in Milton's poem is that we come to know Samson by very special means . It is as if we do not learn to understand his experiences by the same means as we learn about Adam and Eve or Satan - by what he says about himself , or by ...
... effect in Milton's poem is that we come to know Samson by very special means . It is as if we do not learn to understand his experiences by the same means as we learn about Adam and Eve or Satan - by what he says about himself , or by ...
Page 151
... effect . The absence of visual detail describing characters or setting encourages the reader to appre- hend by other means than sight , as Samson does , as if from within his being . Yet the uses of language just discussed create ...
... effect . The absence of visual detail describing characters or setting encourages the reader to appre- hend by other means than sight , as Samson does , as if from within his being . Yet the uses of language just discussed create ...
Contents
PART ONE Paradise Lost | 19 |
Satanic Rhetoric | 41 |
The Alterd Stile of Fallen Men | 69 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Adam and Eve Adam's Alexas allusion angels Antony and Cleopatra Antony's attitudes Aureng-Zebe Biblical blind characters Chorus claims comparison contrast corruption created Dalila David's death defined divine dramatic poem earlier echoes effect eloquence Essays Eve's example experience expressed Fall fallen world feelings final grace guage hear Heav'n hero hero's heroic human implies innocence interpretation ironic parodies John Dryden language lines literary Love man's manipulation Marcus Antonius metaphor Milton and Dryden Milton's epic moral or theological narrator nature original Paradise Lost parallels passage pastoral pattern phrase play poet poet's poetic poetry political praise present Prevenient Grace qualities reader recognize refer Restoration literature restored Reuben Brower rhetoric Samson Agonistes Satan Satan's speeches satire scene seems sense Shakespeare's silence social society soliloquy sound speak story style suggests sweet temptation thee thir thou tion Tiresias titles tophel traditional unfallen utterance Ventidius verbal words