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- Title
`THOSE PROUD TOWERS': PARADISE LOST, V.907.
- Authors
Van Duk, Conrad
- Abstract
The article informs that John Milton's allusions to Sylvester's Du Bartas' have frequently been noted, but it has not been suggested that the memorable last line of Book V of "Paradise Lost" may be an echo of The Divine Weeks and Works. Milton describes Abdiel's defiant departure from Satan's quar- ters in the North as follows: `From amidst them forth he passed . . . And with retorted scorn his back he turned I On those proud tow'rs to swift destruction doomed' (903, 6- 7). In Du Bartas's `The Lawe' we also hear of `those proud Towers', in this case the pyramids Pharaoh builds using Israelite slaves. The allusion to `The Lawe' is important thematically because it allows us to read Abdiel's departure as a further example of Milton's use of the Exodus motif in Paradise Lost.
- Subjects
PARADISE Lost (Poem : Milton); MILTON, John, 1608-1674; POETS; SLAVERY; EXODUS, The; TERMS &; phrases
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 4, p361
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/nq/510361