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- Title
Milton's aevum: The Time Structure of Grace in Paradise Lost.
- Authors
Langer, Ayelet
- Abstract
The article analyzes the time structure of God's grace and its relationship with human free will, or the scholastic concept of the aevum, in Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost." Topics discussed are the repentance scene in Book 11.1-8 of the poem, relationship between the divine and the human contextualized within eviternal moments, idea of the third sacred morn within the context of pre-Christian Homeric and Hebraic moments, and development of the present moment of consciousness.
- Subjects
FREE will &; determinism; AEVUM (The Latin word); PARADISE Lost (Poem : Milton); HOMERIC civilization; CONSCIOUSNESS
- Publication
Early Modern Literary Studies, 2014, Vol 17, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1201-2459
- Publication type
Literary Criticism