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Milton's Spaciousness of Soul and
Sound
Paradise Lost - here we
have an epic which would seem almost to make paradise worth losing, since
without that loss Milton could not have sung so sublimely and almost regained
Paradise for poetry-mad people like the present writer. But more than three
hundred years after its composition, years during which a lot of poetry-mad
people have had their say about it, it is difficult to avoid making just a
rehash of past critical comments. Yet, difficult or no, if one feels that the
last word has not yet been spoken, one must make the attempt to bring new
aspects forward or at least to present certa
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Early Milton and What Paradise Lost Might Have Been
Clues from Early Sri Aurobindo
Savitri is in many respects unMiltonic. However, Sri Aurobindo's early blank verse which assimilates several influences into a varied vigorous originality mingles Paradise Lost most with the chief immediate influence - Stephen Phillips's Christ in Hades and Marpessa - and the principal background influence - Kalidasa's Vicramorvasie. And this blank verse is of particular interest because of a certain question raised by Sri Aurobindo in connection with Milton: "One might speculate on what we might have had
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Poetry of the Thought-Mind and "Overhead Poetry"
Milton's Paradise Lost and Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
Milton knew himself to be for "an audience fit, though few." It is impossible for many to address him in their minds as he makes Eve address Adam:
O sole in whom my thoughts find all repose,
My glory, my perfection! 1
But in a poetic sense Milton can be likened to Adam and regarded as our glory and perfection if we interpret from the standpoint of poetic psychology the phrase:
O sole in whom my thoughts find all repose.
For, Milton is the