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Eve’s “paradise within” in Paradise Lost: A Stoic Mind, a Love Sonnet, and a Good Conscience

Studies in Philology, 2017, Vol.114 (1), p.171-196 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2017 by Studies in Philology ;Copyright © 2008 The University of North Carolina Press. ;COPYRIGHT 2017 University of North Carolina Press ;Copyright The University of North Carolina Press Winter 2017 ;ISSN: 0039-3738 ;ISSN: 1543-0383 ;EISSN: 1543-0383 ;DOI: 10.1353/sip.2017.0006

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Title:
Eve’s “paradise within” in Paradise Lost: A Stoic Mind, a Love Sonnet, and a Good Conscience
Author: Held, Joshua R.
Subjects: 1600-1699 ; Authors ; Blank verse ; Conscience ; divine inspiration ; English Literature ; Eve ; Female Characters ; Historical text analysis ; inner life ; Interiority ; Love ; love sonnet ; Milton, John ; Milton, John (1608-1674) ; paradise ; Paradise Lost ; Philology ; Philosophy ; Plot (Narrative) ; poetry ; Religious literature ; Renaissance ; Seventeenth Century ; Sonnets ; Stoicism ; Stoics in literature ; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Is Part Of: Studies in Philology, 2017, Vol.114 (1), p.171-196
Description: The “paradise within, happier farr” that the angel Michael foretells in the final book of Milton’s Paradise Lost has attracted widespread and often divisive comment. I argue that the most significant interpretive context for the phrase directly follows Michael’s speech. When Adam returns to the newly wakened Eve, she greets him with a blank verse love sonnet that triangulates three sources of encouragement for the couple in their coming exile from Eden. Each source unveils a different aspect of the “paradise within”: the Stoic trope of the world as a homeland, the Renaissance love motif of the lover as a world, and the divine peace of conscience, which many contemporaries described as a “paradise within.”
Publisher: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0039-3738
ISSN: 1543-0383
EISSN: 1543-0383
DOI: 10.1353/sip.2017.0006
Source: ProQuest Central

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Eve’s “paradise within” in Paradise Lost: A Stoic Mind, a Love Sonnet, and a Good Conscience

2017 by Studies in Philology ;Copyright © 2008 The University of North Carolina Press. ;COPYRIGHT 2017 University of North Carolina Press ;Copyright The University of North Carolina Press Winter 2017 ;ISSN: 0039-3738 ;ISSN: 1543-0383 ;EISSN: 1543-0383 ;DOI: 10.1353/sip.2017.0006

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