John Milton: A Reader's Guide to His PoetryFarrar, Straus, 1963 - 385 pages |
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Page 209
... Heaven show more ? ( II . 270-73 ) To Moloch Heaven is only a place a place with golden pavements , handsome buildings encrusted with more precious jewels than even those in Aaron's ephod . During the short time they have been in Hell ...
... Heaven show more ? ( II . 270-73 ) To Moloch Heaven is only a place a place with golden pavements , handsome buildings encrusted with more precious jewels than even those in Aaron's ephod . During the short time they have been in Hell ...
Page 252
... Heaven Adam's question to the Angel serves as prelude to all the cen- tral portion of Paradise Lost . Since Milton was writing in the tradi- tion of the classical epic , he began his story , not at the beginning but in medias res . Now ...
... Heaven Adam's question to the Angel serves as prelude to all the cen- tral portion of Paradise Lost . Since Milton was writing in the tradi- tion of the classical epic , he began his story , not at the beginning but in medias res . Now ...
Page 257
... Heaven seem fought by glorified tin soldiers . The Cannon in Heaven The device most frequently censured is Milton's introduction of cannon into the warfare in Heaven ( VI . 465-630 ) . Not only is the use of gunpowder anachronistic ...
... Heaven seem fought by glorified tin soldiers . The Cannon in Heaven The device most frequently censured is Milton's introduction of cannon into the warfare in Heaven ( VI . 465-630 ) . Not only is the use of gunpowder anachronistic ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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