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 31
עמוד 101
... poet's pres- ence , it places the poet himself into an imagined past . Milton's now is the time of Satan's first arrival on earth . The warning voice the poet calls for is a voice from the past , from the Book of Revelation , that is ...
... poet's pres- ence , it places the poet himself into an imagined past . Milton's now is the time of Satan's first arrival on earth . The warning voice the poet calls for is a voice from the past , from the Book of Revelation , that is ...
עמוד 117
... poet composes at night , and metaphorically because the poet is blind and finds " no dawn . " As the doubly functioning word as suggests , the poet's singing is like the nightingale's , and he sings while the nightingale sings : Then ...
... poet composes at night , and metaphorically because the poet is blind and finds " no dawn . " As the doubly functioning word as suggests , the poet's singing is like the nightingale's , and he sings while the nightingale sings : Then ...
עמוד 151
... poet tells us he was not deceived . We are to believe , that is , that Adam " discerned the chief good " even as he rejected it . How did Milton the poet grapple with the paradox ? Certainly we have seen Adam's " better knowledge ...
... poet tells us he was not deceived . We are to believe , that is , that Adam " discerned the chief good " even as he rejected it . How did Milton the poet grapple with the paradox ? Certainly we have seen Adam's " better knowledge ...
תוכן
Introduction | 1 |
Paradise Lost | 51 |
Meditating on the Creatures Part | 69 |
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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