The Apocalyptic Vision in Paradise Lost

Adam and Eve Adam's analogy anthropomorphism apocalyptic reality apocalyptic technique apocalyptic vision asserts attributes biblical bliss Book C. S. Lewis celestial Christian humanism conceptual images context contrast Creation creatures critics Deity demons describe description of Paradise discussion distance divine doctrine of accommodation E. M. W. Tillyard Earth earthly experience empirical enameled epic narrator epithets Eve's example Fall fallen experience Father garden glory God's Heaven heavenly Hell human experience imagery innocence John Milton light Milton's apocalyptic Milton's epic Milton's Paradise monism motif mystery mystic oxymoron nature negation night in Heaven Paradise Lost passages perfection physical Platonic poem poet poetic Poetry portraying prelapsarian present principle qualities Raphael reader references remote Renaissance Satan scene sensory Similarly sion speaks Spirit statement suggested T. S. Eliot tells Adam thee theory of Ideas things thir tion tradition transcends unfallen VIII visual voice war in Heaven words