Paradise Lost and classical ideals of pleasurable restraint

Comparative Literature | July 1, 1996| | Copyright

UNFALLEN ADAM AND EVE in Milton's Paradise Lost discover in self-restraint both a moral discipline and the source of truest pleasure. Pleasurable restraint defines their mutual conversation-their shared garden labors, rests and repasts, prayers, lovemaking, separations and reunions. While discuss ions of Paradise Lost's relation to the classical tradition have generally confined their attention to the poem's poetic models,1 Milton's depiction of the Edenic couple draws on and transforms ancient philosophical as well as poetic themes. Adam and Eve's pleasurable restraint is indebted not only to ...

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