Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic by Esther van Raamsdonk

Author:Esther van Raamsdonk [Raamsdonk, Esther van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Europe, Great Britain, Middle Ages (449-1066), Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485)
ISBN: 9781000171860
Google: JJ3yDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-13T03:42:03+00:00

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Predestination and Grace in Milton’s Samson Agonistes and Marvell’s Remarks

In Paradise Lost, the fallen angels have lost the ability to penetrate the Scripture. They have no scriptural authority and become endlessly lost in theological debate:

 […] In discourse more sweet

(For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense)

Others apart sat on a hill retired,

In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high

Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,

Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,

And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.

(II. 555–561)

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