"The Vine and Her Elm": Milton's Eve and the Transformation of an Ovidian Motif

Green, Mandy

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“…Lewis’s other views on Milton’s angels received modest attention in the 1990s as well. Leslie Moore (1990) refers her readers to Lewis’s discussion of angels with apparent approval (190n7); Carl Freedman (1995) conjectures that one of the subjects Lewis treated in PPL that “most readers have found most useful” is his explanation of “the notions of angelic substance current in Renaissance Platonism” (32); and Mandy Green (1996) cites Lewis’s remark that, at the beginning of Raphael’s visit, “the angel hails her [Eve] more ceremoniously than Adam” (307n29, quoting PPL 121). But of course, of all the angels Satan in particular is discussed most often.…”

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The Reception of C. S. Lewis’sA Preface toParadise Lost in Milton Scholarship, 1990‐2015

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2021

Milton Quarterly

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The Reception of C. S. Lewis’sA Preface toParadise Lost in Milton Scholarship, 1990‐2015

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Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature

Cotterill

2004

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This book begins and ends with the intellectual and imaginative pleasures of narrative wandering. ‘To digress’ in early modern England carried a range of associations with authority and gender, from amplitude and escape to deviance and transgression. The book argues that writers classically trained in verbal contest used the liberty of digression to create a complex form of underground writing and self-definition in some of the richest non-dramatic texts of 17th-century England; such a pointed use of digressiveness in the period has not been recognized. Within these textual mazes writers captured the ambiguities of political occasion and patronage, while they anatomized enemies and mourned personal loss. The narrator of each text addresses a specter of speechlessness as well as loss of self through a figurative descent to an unstable underworld associated with a female or effeminate weakness. In fresh readings of Donne's Anniversaries, Marvell's Upon Appleton House, Sir Thomas Browne's The Garden of Cyrus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Dryden's The Hind and the Panther and A Discourse of Satire, and Swift's A Tale of a Tub, the book draws attention to the expansiveness of many of the period's literary forms, such as country-house poem, literary anatomy, dedicatory epistle, beast fable, and epic. Turning current sensitivity toward the silenced voice in a new direction, the book argues that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and silence for early modern men forced to be competitive yet circumspect to make their voices heard.

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"The Vine and Her Elm": Milton's Eve and the Transformation of an Ovidian Motif

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The Reception of C. S. Lewis’sA Preface toParadise Lost in Milton Scholarship, 1990‐2015

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