Milton's Wisdom: Nature and Scripture in Paradise LostUniversity of Michigan Press, 1992 - 296 עמודים 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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 15
עמוד 32
... move others to act , and sometimes they give us away . Satan's address to the sun is glossed thus by the narrator : Thus while he spake , each passion dimmed his face Thrice changed with pale , ire , envy and despair , Which marred his ...
... move others to act , and sometimes they give us away . Satan's address to the sun is glossed thus by the narrator : Thus while he spake , each passion dimmed his face Thrice changed with pale , ire , envy and despair , Which marred his ...
עמוד 41
... move , fair creatures , tell , Tell , if ye saw , how came I thus , how here ? Not of my self ; by some great maker then , In goodness and in power pre - eminent ; Tell me , how may I know him , how adore , From whom I have that thus I move ...
... move , fair creatures , tell , Tell , if ye saw , how came I thus , how here ? Not of my self ; by some great maker then , In goodness and in power pre - eminent ; Tell me , how may I know him , how adore , From whom I have that thus I move ...
עמוד 102
... move upward as we read . When we reach the " circling row / Of goodliest trees , " we receive a moment's rest . Supposedly safe within the circle , we are also within a world artfully designed for human pleasure : Blossoms and fruits at ...
... move upward as we read . When we reach the " circling row / Of goodliest trees , " we receive a moment's rest . Supposedly safe within the circle , we are also within a world artfully designed for human pleasure : Blossoms and fruits at ...
תוכן
Introduction | 1 |
Paradise Lost | 51 |
Meditating on the Creatures Part | 69 |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Adam and Eve Adam's angels answer appears beauty become beginning Book bring calls chapter conversation course created creation creatures death describes desire divine earth effect emphasis Eve's evil expressed eyes face fact fair faith Fall fallen Father fear feel follow fruit given gives God's grace hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven heavenly human hymn John knowledge leave light lines live look Lord meaning Michael Milton mind morning move nature once opening Paradise Lost passage perhaps phrase poem poet praise prayer present providence question Raphael reader reason reference Satan says Scripture seems seen sense sight speak speech spirit story suggest sweet tells thee things thou thought tree turn understanding University Press unto voice wisdom wonder words