The virgin in the garden: Milton's Ovidian eve.(Critical Essay)
From: The Modern Language Review
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Date: 10/1/2005
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Author: Green, Mandy
ABSTRACT
Milton appropriates narrative structures from the Metamorphoses to amplify the elliptical account of Eve's creation in Genesis and to convey her sense of self or sexuality. Through the controlled use of such mythological patterning, Milton engages the reader in making complex responses to Eve. He deliberately fails to fix the meaning of such allusions, which thereby become a way of holding in solution unresolved, even contradictory, emphases in a situation where ...
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