| Description |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Confessions of the Author; CHAPTER ONE Milton's Dual Concept of God as Related to Creation; CHAPTER TWO Milton's Chaos and Old Night; CHAPTER THREE The Consistence and Qualities of Chaos; CHAPTER FOUR The Genesis of Milton's World; CHAPTER FIVE The Lordship of Milton's Sun; CHAPTER SIX Some Travels of Satan and the Road to Hell; CHAPTER SEVEN Milton's Scale of Nature; Epilogue; APPENDIX Milton's Light Exhaling from Darkness: A Study in Symbols; NOTES |
| Summary |
Walter Clyde Curry, a well-known student of Milton, analyzes the origins and unique construction of the grand stage upon which Milton presents the drama of human destiny in Paradise Lost. Through close examination of four entities -- Heaven of Heavens, Hell, chaos, and the World -- a greatly expanded view is provided of the poet's concept of space and God's relation to total creation. In facing structural and philosophical problems Milton is shown to be neither a materialist, nor an eclectic, nor a pantheist, as many scholars have insisted; he emerges rather as a master syncretist of widely divergent materials and as a devout theopantist. Curry has established a firm basis for a better understanding of the poet's methodology and for a clearer insight into his artistic accomplishments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Philosophy
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| SUBJECT |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
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Paradise lost (Milton, John) fast |
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Fall of man in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Fall of man in literature
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Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813162591 |
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0813162599 |
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