Milton nature
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- Created on: 16-05-15 21:49
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- MILTON'S PARADISE LOST
- (Prelapsarian) PLENTIFUL NATURE
- Edenic Mount: draws from Dante & Spenser's Adonis
- Inexhaustible richness - Ideal landscape rhetorical tropes
- Fertility (Bks 4 and 7)
- Heavenly model
- FUNCTION OF GARDENING
- Garden's inherent divine order and unity
- Nuptial Bower: divine artistry + image of marital bliss
- Futility: process over results
- shape and purpose: Genesis 2:15 "dress" and "keep"
- emblem of moral discipline, control and obedience
- elm and vine: Virgilean metaphor PASTORAL MARRIAGE
- once separated, Eve = 'the frailest unsupported flower'
- Garden's inherent divine order and unity
- WILDNESS
- PRELAPSARIAN (ROMANTIC LUXURIANCE/UNFALLEN BLISS AND INNOCENCE)
- Raphael 'wilderness of sweets' (Bk5)
- Tayler: break from early Renaissance traditions of order/uniformity
- Satan 'Access denied' (Bk4)
- Hortus conclusus
- Enclosed sacred garden - feminised virginal female body metaphor
- compare whorish wide gates of Hell (Bk4)
- Enclosed sacred garden - feminised virginal female body metaphor
- Hortus conclusus
- Raphael 'wilderness of sweets' (Bk5)
- POSTLAPSARIAN
- William Bradford New England (moral disorder)
- colonists as Israelite gardeners in Zion wilderness
- Bk 9 Adam
- wild woods forlorn
- William Bradford New England (moral disorder)
- PRELAPSARIAN (ROMANTIC LUXURIANCE/UNFALLEN BLISS AND INNOCENCE)
- (Prelapsarian) PLENTIFUL NATURE
- 17/18th century HORTICULTURE
- 17th century first recreational public gardens
- St James's Park
- Fashionable rise of the Estate Architect
- 17th century Henry Wotton and John Evelyn
- Kelsall: Garden grown organically from English soil
- English Country House/Estate = wealth and power
- IDEALISED ENGLAND: Conservative fantasy of stability
- Recreated Eden - Adam proprietor of 'Great Estate'
- Kelsall: Garden grown organically from English soil
- virtuously rules, dwells and gardens over his land/estate
- Recreated Eden - Adam proprietor of 'Great Estate'
- IDEALISED ENGLAND: Conservative fantasy of stability
- 17th century Henry Wotton and John Evelyn
- 17th century first recreational public gardens
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