"That Christ deny’d divorce to his own", what does Milton mean here in this...
In book one of The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, it is written:That indisposition, unfitnes, or contrariety of mind, arising from a cause in nature unchangeable, hindring, and ever likely to...
View ArticleWhat is the "manhood of a Roman recovery" in John Milton's Areopagitica?
This sentence appears in Milton's "Areopagitica":To which if I now manifest by the very sound of this which I shallutter, that we are already in good part arrived, and yet from such asteep disadvantage...
View ArticleProsodic features and rules for Miltonic verses?
Are there any special prosodic features to Milton's blank verse?Is it just unrhyming iambic pentameter, or does it have any restrictions on what the final sound in a line must be like even though they...
View ArticleDid Milton invoking the Muse imply that he didn't want to rely on the Bible?
Can it be inferred from John Milton's Paradise Lost, that by invoking the Muse in book 1, he wanted to reject biblical literalism (despite the Muse being the Holy Spirit, which itself formed the Bible)?
View ArticleWhat are the "concurring signs" of which Satan speaks?
In Paradise Lost Book II, Satan explains to Sin why he wants to leave Hell: ... through the void immenseTo search with wand'ring quest a place foretoldShould be, and, by concurring signs, ere...
View ArticleMeaning of a passage in Milton's Sonnet 21
I'm reading Milton's Sonnet 21 and a couple of lines are unintelligible to me. Here is the full poem. The emboldened lines 5 and 6 are the ones I'm having trouble with:Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the...
View ArticleDifficulty understanding the meaning of a line in Paradise Regained
I'm having trouble understanding the phrase "For no allurement yields to appetite" in the following passage from Milton's Paradise Regained:"By hunger, that each other creature tames,Thou art not to be...
View ArticleParsing Paradise Lost XI.48–57
I am having trouble parsing a passage from Paradise Lost Book 11. God is decreeing that Adam be expelled from the Garden of Eden:But longer in that Paradise to dwell,The law I gave to nature him...
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