Milton Against Humility?: Milton's Paradise Epics and a Poetics of Humility
This paper sketches an account of Milton's poetics of humility in his epic poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Resisting an argument that Milton rejects humility in favor of classical values, I argue that Milton retrieves dimensions of humility that were eclipsed by Reformation emphases...
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University of Notre Dame
2019
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Religion & literature
Year: 2019, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 47-67 |
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B Christianity B Cultural History B JUDEO-Christian tradition B Christian Ethics |
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