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《长安大学学报（社科版）》[ISSN:1671-6248/CN:61-1391/C]

Issue:

2012年01期

Page:

104-108

Research Field:

文学

Publishing date:

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Title:

Milton and English epics

Author(s):

CHEN Jing-xi¹; 2

1. School of Literature, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, Shaanxi, China; 2. School of Literature, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, Shaanxi, China

Keywords:

English epics;  Beowulf;  Paradise Lost;  grand style

PACS:

H0-06

DOI:

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Abstract:

From Beowulf to Paradise Lost, a significant transition and progression can be noted. In view of such a standpoint, this paper makes a comparative analysis of the two epics in their layout, theme and language. Beowulf combines the tribal legends, myths and historical events in Germanic poetic trad-ition, and creaties a microscopic view of the Germanic world in the Heroic Age. Paradise Lost, on the other hand, brings the Biblical stories, Greek and Arabian myths and the spirits of the Renaissance into a grand tragic narrative which shifts among the Heaven, Paradise, Chaos and the Hell, by means of the Miltonic grand style. The analysis shows that Milton with his Paradise Lost has made significant contributions to the development and progression of the English epics.

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