Sentences with phrase «of paradise lost»

The images in the Cirque de l'Etoile Filante portfolio reflect the artist's attempt to strip away the «spangles» of the clown's costume and reveal the «reflection of paradise lost.»

Even in that almost otherworldly life, it is evident that these people have retained dreams of other worlds, of a paradise lost.

Following on from the success of Paradise Lost in 2014, tactileBOSCH are delighted to be taking part in Cardiff Contemporary once again to produce Garden of Earthly Delights.

In what ways is this a story of Paradise Lost — for Placidia and the Major, for their son learning the truth, and for the South in general?

I felt that for the Major and Placidia their story was a kind of paradise lost in range of ways.

Bulger's trial and imprisonment reignited public interest in his life and bloody legacy, resulting in documentary released last year, Whitey: The United States of America vs. James J. Bulger from Joe Berlinger, the director of the Paradise Lost series.

from Joe Berlinger, the director of the Paradise Lost series.

Alex Proyas is digging into his phone contacts list for the latest piece of Paradise Lost casting, as he's now added Dark City star Rufus Sewell to the ensemble.

But his latest project will see him venture into psychological thriller territory with one of the Paradise Lost...

The actor just recently entered negotiations to star in The Crow remake, and now he's in talks to star as Lucifer in director Alex Proyas» (Knowing) adaptation of Paradise Lost.

Benjamin Walker, the man who will be Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, is in negotiations with Legendary Pictures to star in Alex Proyas» adaptation of Paradise Lost.

Malick's first film set in contemporary times is one of his more minor ones, but it is not without its pleasures as Variety believes, «It's perhaps Malick's simplest, most relatable evocation yet of paradise lost.»

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann; Alfred A. Knopf, $ 30 In a poignant reconstruction of paradise lost, Mann marshals compelling evidence that the «New World» was an advanced, thriving, and crowded place before Columbus and his disease - bearing ilk swept through it like a scythe.

A septuagenarian who started training his memory at the age of 58 can now recite all 60,000 words of Paradise Lost with amazing accuracy

But in many ways, we deprive ourselves of any basis for doing so by continuing to find Satan mesmerizing in the first two books of Paradise Lost.

Among these he includes the Old Testament story of Paradise Lost, which is the story of an encounter between God and the devil, and the story of the Passion of Christ in the Gospels, which, he says, portrays «a second encounter between the same antagonists».

John Milton (Christian author of Paradise Lost and good acquaintances with Isaac Newton) was a «material monist» — that is, he believed that all creation came out of God's being.

Open the poetry of Paradise Lost, and soon you're entering vast rooms of Milton's thought on politics, education, and the Christian's relationship to culture.

I am happy to report that Quint does not engage the perennial if not perpetual controversy (around since the poem was published) about whether Satan is the hero of Paradise Lost.

The «poetic edifice» of Paradise Lost is finally not so different from the infernally created Pandaemonium: «The Satan who first lifts himself... off the burning lake darkly mirrors his literary creator.»

He was a fantastic literature critic, who gracefully guided generations of graduate students to a better understanding of Paradise Lost and a rich collection of other medieval works.

John Milton echoes these lines in Book 1 of Paradise Lost, when he requests inspiration from «chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer / Before all other Temples th» upright heart and pure.»

Not exact matches

Directing the series is Joe Berlinger, the Academy Award - nominated director of the true - crime documentary «Paradise Lost.»

When Milton begins his epic Paradise Lost, «Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit,» he violates the iambic pentameter» the sole rule of his blank verse» with the word «Disobedience» in the very first linOf Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit,» he violates the iambic pentameter» the sole rule of his blank verse» with the word «Disobedience» in the very first linof his blank verse» with the word «Disobedience» in the very first line.

(Except once, in a mythic aside: Whitehead cites from Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, and then adds: «the fact of Satan's journey through chaos helped to evolve order; for he left a permanent track, useful for the devils and the damned» [PR 96].

If it was John Milton's task in Paradise Lost to «justify the ways of God to men,» Dante before him had taken on the responsibility of showing that all that is found in this world and in the next is measured by justice.

Our Concept of «Hell» comes mostly from Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost.

So, too, do a Christian nostalgia for a lost paradise, a Christian doctrine of Christ as the eternal Logos, and a Christian meditation that sinks into the interior depths of the self.

It is a melancholy with which I suspect we are all familiar at some level, as individuals and as a race, something that haunts us and of which my sadness is only a fragmentary reminder» the feeling of having lost paradise.

I mentioned these essays to one of my colleagues, who told me of some students of his who bad written about Book IX of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which the Fall is described.

More often, though, he aims at a kind of sardonic comedy, as in his «Rejection Note for Paradise Regained,» imagining what John Milton's publishers might have said to his follow - up to Paradise Lost:

It is not that the theses of traditional theology regarding Adam's elevation to grace, his Paradise, his knowledge and so on, are to be unmasked and diagnosed as at the most anthropomorphisms or dreams of a golden age in which mankind expressed in vivid form a longed - for future rather than a past that had once existed and was lost?

So if I find a passage in Paradise Lost that seems to run counter to everything else in Paradise, I immediately suspect my reading and try to find a reading that is coherent with the rest of it.»

On a Trinitarian approach, we understand that we and the world exist in the broader context of the economy of salvation: we should expect to see imperfections and evil, both because we ourselves are fallen observers, and because we are observing a «groaning» Creation, in transition from a lost Paradise to «a new Heaven and a new Earth».

It is one of the virtues of Quint's book (another is the generosity of critical annotation, amounting almost to a mini variorum edition) that Paradise Lost's still center is given a density so great that reading the poem becomes itself a heroic act; an act difficult to perform, but in its difficulty providing an experience few (if any) efforts of the human imagination are capable of provoking.

Four great epics that portray the fate of the soul — The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Divine Comedy, and Paradise Lost — form the structure of Markos's book.

The deep explication of the role Icarus plays in the poem is in the service of a key thesis: «The myths of these highfliers who fall are further countered in Paradise Lost by the motif of poetic flight.»

I suggest reading Paradise Lost if you want to get beyond the one - dimentional characterization of him that we get from Christian scripture.

Religion can not be left out of it as if this man accepts a transfusion he will lose in place on the long awaited earthy paradise and he will be disfellowshipped / shunned by all of his «true Christian» bible observing friends / so called brothers and sisters.

Paradise Lost worries at the origins of humanity as a species.

The subject of hell, if not attractive, is at least fascinating, as any reader of Dante's Inferno or Milton's Paradise Lost can testify.

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

Bird, angel, ancestral voice, he spoke in white flame, Calling from the East, calling from Eden, Calling in beauty to the lost children of Paradise.

One of his production partners explained to Variety, ««Paradise Lost» is like a biblical «Games of Thrones,» transporting the reader into an internecine world of political intrigue and incredible violence.

It's inherent even in the Christian language of «The Fall,» the foundational understanding that things have all gone wrong, that paradise has been lost.

By a common feature of human mythical thinking, however, paradise in the end time is thought of as the recreation of a primeval paradise at the dawn of creation, the lost «golden age.»

The Talmud includes the cautionary tale of four sages who entered paradise: «Ben Azzai looked and died; Ben Zoma looked and lost his mind; Elisha ben Avuyah became a heretic; and Rabbi Akiba entered in peace and departed in peace.»

In fact, the whole purpose of the discernment of spirits coincides with Milton's purpose in writing Paradise Lost: as Fish has rightly seen (and he was the first to do so), Milton wants us to live through the consequences of sin in our imaginative reenactment of salvation history (no wonder he felt that Paradise Regained was the capstone of his work) in order to keep us from the more dire lessons that life imparts.

Similarly there are some in this country who hanker after the lost paradise of a mediaeval Merry England.

Prior to this book, most Miltonists had divided themselves into two camps: those who believed that Milton was sincere in his Roundhead and Puritan convictions and wrote only to edify his readers, and those who believed that, at least in Paradise Lost, he was (in William Blake's famous phrase) «of the Devil's party without knowing it.»