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 40
עמוד 86
... once , now misery hath joined In equal ruin : into what pit thou seest From what highth fallen , so much the stronger proved He with his thunder : and till then who knew The force of those dire arms ? ( 1.84-94 ) Arnold Stein notes that ...
... once , now misery hath joined In equal ruin : into what pit thou seest From what highth fallen , so much the stronger proved He with his thunder : and till then who knew The force of those dire arms ? ( 1.84-94 ) Arnold Stein notes that ...
עמוד 178
... once more I will renew His lapsed powers , though forfeit and enthralled By sin to foul exorbitant desires ; Upheld by me , yet once more he shall stand On even ground against his mortal foe , By me upheld , that he may know how frail ...
... once more I will renew His lapsed powers , though forfeit and enthralled By sin to foul exorbitant desires ; Upheld by me , yet once more he shall stand On even ground against his mortal foe , By me upheld , that he may know how frail ...
עמוד 253
... once - the more unbearable that knowledge becomes . In that respect he is acting out the Preacher's observation that " in much wisdom is much grief : and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow " ( Eccles . 1:18 ) . If he suffers ...
... once - the more unbearable that knowledge becomes . In that respect he is acting out the Preacher's observation that " in much wisdom is much grief : and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow " ( Eccles . 1:18 ) . If he suffers ...
תוכן
Introduction | 1 |
Paradise Lost | 51 |
Meditating on the Creatures Part | 69 |
זכויות יוצרים | |
2 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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