"Ad Ferrum ... Ab Auro": Degenerative and Regenerative Patterning in the Final Books of Paradise Lost
(2007)
Journal Article
Green, M. (2007). "Ad Ferrum ... Ab Auro": Degenerative and Regenerative Patterning in the Final Books of Paradise Lost. Modern Language Review, 102(3), 654-671. https://doi.org/10.2307/20467426
In the final books of Paradise Lost Milton exploits the rhetorical possibilities of typology to organize his survey of human history and propel his narrative forward through time to eternity. This typological framework may prove to extend further tha... Read More about "Ad Ferrum ... Ab Auro": Degenerative and Regenerative Patterning in the Final Books of Paradise Lost.