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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study interprets Paradise Lost as a rhetoric of literary forms, by attending to the broad spectrum of literary genres, modes, and exemplary works Milton incorporates within that poem. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-p
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. xi*Chapter 1. Paradise Lost As Encyclopedic Epic: The Uses Of Literary Forms, pg. 1*Chapter 2. Inspiration and Literary Art: The Prophet-Poets of Paradise Lost, pg. 25*Chapter 3. "Argument Heroic Deem'd": The Genres of the Satanic Heroic Mode, pg. 55*Chapter 4. "Semblance of Worth, not Substance": The Discursive and Lyric Genres of the Damned, pg. 79*Chapter 5. "Other Excellence": Generic Multiplicity and Milton's Literary God, pg. 110*Chapter 6. "Our Happy State": Literary Forms for Angelic Wholeness, pg. 140*Chapter 7. "A Happy Rural Seat of Various View": Pastoral Idyl and the Genres of Edenic Innocence, pg. 173*Chapter 8. "Our Pleasant Labor": Georgic and Comedic Modes and Genres in Eden, pg. 196*Chapter 9. "I Now Must Change Those Notes to Tragic": The Fall and the Tragic Genres, pg. 220*Chapter 10. "Not Less but More Heroic": Prophecy and the Transformation of Literary Forms, pg. 254*Notes, pg. 281*Index, pg. 361
