Milton's Chivalric Tragedy: The Persistence of Romance in Book 9 of Paradise Lost

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-158
Author(s):  
Trevor Cook
Keyword(s):  
Paradise Lost

Leaving Eden

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Quint
Keyword(s):  
Paradise Lost ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Church

This concluding chapter examines the structure of the composite books 11 and 12, in which the prophesied destruction of Eden corresponds, antithetically, to the building of Pandaemonium at the beginning of Paradise Lost in book 1. After the Fall, Eden might become a temple, oracle site, a grove of pagan rites, goal of pilgrimage—it has already, at the moment that Satan invades it in book 4, been compared to the sheepfold of the Church, prey to thieves, a Church too rich to escape corruption. In books that predict the rise of empires, God dissociates his cult from power and wealth, closing down and eventually washing away Eden, lest it become another Pandaemonium—a haunt of foul spirits.

Ulysses and the Devils: The Unity of Book 2

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Quint
Keyword(s):  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Trojan War

This chapter focuses on book 2 of Paradise Lost. In book 2, Milton continues the story of the demilitarization of the fallen angels and of his epic more generally when he bases all of its action around the figure of Ulysses, the hero of eloquence and fraud, whose own epic comes in the aftermath of the Trojan War. The chapter demonstrates that the Odyssey, imitated and parodied in Satan's voyage through Chaos to God's newly created universe in the book's last section, is just one of the classical stories about the career of Ulysses that Milton evokes as models for its different episodes. The various parts of book 2 are held together by this pattern of allusion, as well as by the Odyssean figures of Scylla and Charybdis, the emblem of bad choices, or of loss of choice itself.

Die Ausrufung der Naturgesetze in John Miltons Paradise Lost

POETICA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Björn Quiring
Keyword(s):  
Paradise Lost
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