Milton's Wisdom: Nature and Scripture in Paradise LostUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 296 páginas Milton's Wisdom examines the poet's use of the traditional notion that the eternal wisdom of God expressed itself in the "books" of nature and Scripture. It is the first study to draw attention to Milton's extensive use of biblical wisdom literature in his dramatization of Adam and Eve's education, their fall, and their reconciliation with one another and with God. The author looks at the ways theological and hence epistemological questions converge on and are generated by Adam's, Eve's, and Satan's responses to the world they see around them and to the words God and his emissaries speak to them. Reichert argues that the nature/Scripture dichotomy informs the symmetrical structure of the twelve books of Milton's epic. Milton's Wisdom challenges previous readings that have tried to ally Milton with the Puritans' strict theology of the word. Reichert has shifted our attention away from literary and historical theory and back to the experience of the poem as a whole. |
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... Wonder is by far the feeling most frequently associated with the sight of God's works , both in the Old Testament and in Paradise Lost . Wonder is nonrational . It leaves us susceptible to faith in things un- seen , as in the first few ...
... Wonder is by far the feeling most frequently associated with the sight of God's works , both in the Old Testament and in Paradise Lost . Wonder is nonrational . It leaves us susceptible to faith in things un- seen , as in the first few ...
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... wonder in our ears , / Far differing from this world " ( 7.70–71 ) , undermines his thesis . There is an irony in Adam's words , for what has chiefly moved him to such wonder has been a very worldly , undignified , untranscendental sort ...
... wonder in our ears , / Far differing from this world " ( 7.70–71 ) , undermines his thesis . There is an irony in Adam's words , for what has chiefly moved him to such wonder has been a very worldly , undignified , untranscendental sort ...
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... wonder claims attention due . ( 9.550-66 ) The placement of though at the beginning of the second line imme- diately deflects us away from an answer to the question of precisely which words made their way into Eve's heart and turns us ...
... wonder claims attention due . ( 9.550-66 ) The placement of though at the beginning of the second line imme- diately deflects us away from an answer to the question of precisely which words made their way into Eve's heart and turns us ...
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Paradise Lost | 51 |
Meditating on the Creatures Part | 69 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam and Eve Adam's angels Balachandra Rajan beauty Beelzebub beginning behold biblical Book 11 book of nature C. S. Lewis chapter Christ Christian conversation created creation creatures death delight despair divine earth Ecclesiasticus emphasis Epic Eve's evil expressed eyes face fair faith Fall fallen Father fear feel follow fruit Genesis Geneva Bible glory God's grace happy hath hear heart heaven heavenly hell holy human hymn knowledge light lines Lord meditation Michael Milton mind nature's Paradise Lost passage Paul's phrase poem poet praise prayer present prologue to Book Puritan question Raphael reader Richard Hooker Richard Sibbes Sapience Satan says Scripture seems sense sight speak speech Spenser's spirit Stanley Fish suggest sweet tells thee things Thomas Gataker thought tion tree turn understanding University Press unto voice Wisd wisdom Wisdom literature Wisdom of Solomon wonder words
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All in All: Unity, Diversity, and the Miltonic Perspective Charles W. Durham,Kristin A. Pruitt Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
Liturgy and Literature in the Making of Protestant England Timothy Rosendale Vista previa limitada - 2007 |