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This new guide leads readers through the complexities of the text with detailed commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks and contexts.

Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism. --- Fall of man in literature. --- Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature

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Creation in literature --- Imagination in literature --- Epic poetry, English --- History and criticism --- Blake, William, --- Philosophy --- Blake, W. --- Blake, William --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Philosophy. --- Epic poetry, English - History and criticism --- Blake, William, - 1757-1827 - Jerusalem --- Blake, William, - 1757-1827 - Philosophy --- Blake, William, - 1757-1827

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Don Juan (Legendary character) --- Don Juan (Personnage légendaire) --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, --- Don Juan (Legendary character) in literature --- Epic poetry, English --- Seduction in literature --- History and criticism --- Examinations --- Study guides --- Don Juan (Personnage légendaire) --- Epic poetry, English - History and criticism --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, - Baron, - 1788-1824 - Childe Harold's pilgrimage --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, - Baron, - 1788-1824 - Examinations - Study guides --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, - Baron, - 1788-1824 - Don Juan --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, - Baron, - 1788-1824

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A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood The English epyllion, the highly erotic mythological verse that swept the London literary scene in the 1590s, is as much about rhetoric as about sex. So argues William Weaver in this fascinating study of Renaissance education and poetry. Rhetoric, moreover, is erotic. Far being merely formal, rhetoric is the key to deciphering the cultural meanings of an enigmatic genre. Weaver attends to one of the epyllion's defining dramas: boys in transition to adulthood. Whereas recent studies of the epyllion have posited sexuality a

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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc) --- Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- Epic poetry, English --- History --- History and criticism --- Spenser, Edmund, --- Langland, William, --- England --- Intellectual life --- -Epic poetry, English --- -Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Self in literature --- 820 --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- English epic poetry --- English poetry --- Engelse literatuur --- Langland, William --- -Spenser, Edmund --- Influence --- -Intellectual life --- -Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- 820 Engelse literatuur --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- Langland, Robert, --- Langland, Uĭli︠a︡m, --- 820 English literature. Literature in English --- English literature. Literature in English --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History - 16th century --- Christian poetry, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- Epic poetry, English - History and criticism --- Spenser, Edmund, - 1552?-1599? - Faerie queene --- Langland, William, - 1330?-1400? - Piers Plowman --- England - Intellectual life - 16th century --- England - Intellectual life - 1066-1485