Regaining Paradise LostRoutledge, 2014 M01 21 - 176 pages Paradise Lost is not merely the masterpiece of John Milton (1608-74) but a turning point in style and form, which had a profound influence on the poetry of the following century. Divided into two parts, this major survey begins by discussing the revolutionary characteristics of Paradise Lost in the context of contemporary literary norms and examines the theological, psychological, stylistic and narrative innovation in the poem. It then provides a fuller account of the complex, and now obscure political, and theological issues and other issues that Milton's poem addresses and sought to resolve. It concludes by examining the themes discussed in the light of the influence of the poem on the tradition of English literature. |
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... prose or rhyme' (1. 16). It was an avant guardist work, as disconcerting in its own age as The Wasteland or Lyrical Ballads were in theirs. In part that power rests in its new poetic idiom; it is the most confident and ambitious ...
... prose polemic, Of Reformation (1641), he envisages, not the passing of hell (with its optimistic assumption that perhaps all souls will be delivered from it), but the sealing of hell, with the Anglican bishops and other enemies of the ...
... prose surely has a sense that he shares the view of victorious contemporaries, that God's special mercy is available to the godly. Adam takes with him no such certainties into the fallen world. Michael's vision contains some elements of ...
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