Inside Paradise Lost Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic 1st edition by David Quint ISBN 0691159742 978-0691159744

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ISBN 10: 0691159742
ISBN 13: 978-0691159744
Author: David Quint

Inside “Paradise Lost” opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton’s epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint’s comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects of Paradise Lost―its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible, its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice.

Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by appearing to ratify Adam’s decision to fall and die with his wife. The Milton of this Paradise Lost is a Christian humanist who believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of Milton’s masterpiece, Paradise Lost reveals itself in new formal configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.

Inside Paradise Lost Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic 1st Table of contents:

1. MILTON’S BOOK OF NUMBERS: BOOK 1 AND ITS CATALOG

The Shape of the Catalog

Moloch and Belial 1

Moloch and Saturn 1

Moloch and Saturn 2: A Miniature Aeneid

Moloch and Belial 2: Libya and Sodom

Egypt

The Catalog and Pandaemonium

The Logic of the Similes in Book 1

Raising Devils

Appendix: Demonic Swashbucklers

2. ULYSSES AND THE DEVILS: THE UNITY OF BOOK 2

The Council

Moloch and Belial Again: Ajax and Ulysses

Mammon and Beelzebub: A Thersites Is Rebuked

Satan and the Doloneia

Meanwhile, Back in Hell . . .

Milton’s Telegony

Satan’s Odyssey

Whose Odyssey?

3. FEAR OF FALLING: ICARUS, PHAETHON, AND LUCRETIUS

Icarus and Satan’s Fall Through Chaos

Virgil and Lucretius

Dante, Tasso, Ovid

Satan Voyager

Phaethon, the Son, and the War in Heaven

Flight and Fall

A Poetry Against Falling

4. LIGHT, VISION, AND THE UNITY OF BOOK 3

Structure and Design

Universal Blank

Vision

The Sun

The Paradise of Fools

Sun Worshippers

Poetry and Science

5. THE POLITICS OF ENVY

Envy and the New Dispensation

Angels and Courtiers

Brotherhood versus Kingship in Books 11–12

6. GETTING WHAT YOU WISH FOR: A READING OF THE FALL

The Seduction of Eve

The Second Adam as Second Eve

Adam’s Choice: “One flesh”

“Not vastly disproportionall”

Changing Places

Appendix: A Note on the Separation Scene

7. REVERSING THE FALL IN BOOK 10

Virgilian Coordinates and the End of Satan

Creation and Anti-creation

Anti-triumphs

The Triumphs of the Son

Satan’s Triumph

Adam and the Winds

The Recovery of Human Choice

Cherishing Eve

Dido and Armida; Creusa

Pandora

The Exposed Matron

8. LEAVING EDEN

Deconsecrated Earth

Good-bye

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