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- Title
MILTON'S HELL-HOUNDS.
- Authors
Martin, R. W. F.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the use of the phrase "hell-hounds" by John Milton in his work "Paradise Lost."Scholars have proposed several sources for the hell-hounds attending Sin in Book II of "Paradise Lost." John Illo cited Guillaume Du Bartas's description of the chiurca, or oppossum, in "His Devine Weekes and Workes" after observing that Ovid's "Scylla" and Spenser's "Error" though clearly influential, did not provide Milton with the idea of hell-hounds kennelling in her womb. Alastair Fowler later suggested that common Renaissance emblems of Opinion and Error were more relevant as possible sources, and gave Beza's icones emblem XXXII, as an example.
- Subjects
PARADISE Lost (Poem : Milton); MILTON, John, 1608-1674; DU Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590; SCYLLA (Poem); ERROR (Poem); RENAISSANCE
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1989, Vol 36, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/36-1-31