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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation"”.
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"By one man's firm obedience fully tried" : Christ the man and messianic misconception in Paradise Regained.
… banquet scene Milton places between the first and second biblical temptations. I soon determined, however, that the banquet is not a temptation concerned with food as an end but as a means. I believe that Milton intends the feast to be a temptation to glory disguised as a temptation of …
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Erasmian humanism and the utopias of Thomas More and John Milton
… Humanism on the political thought of John Milton and Thomas More, and argues that Milton’s politics was utopian like More’s. In true Erasmian spirit, their utopias blend classical ethics and Christian beliefs and emphasize education and training in virtue. However, virtue was significant to their …
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
… parallel with early Christianity, Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism. The Hermetic tradition gained importance in the Renaissance with Marsilio Ficino's translations and soon became an alternative avenue for the exploration in the spiritual conception of the 'self' as divine, a conception previously …
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
… claims: that the soul is annihilated at death and that fear of higher powers should be avoided. However, the two poets employ a number of similar devices in the service of their differing aims. Both seek to advance a doctrine through the medium of poetry, and both employ the epideictic …