Articles
Pubblicato 07/10/2016
Parole chiave
- Old English,
- Genesis,
- Satan,
- Milton,
- Junius 11 manuscript
Come citare
Ramazzina, E. (2016). The Old English Genesis and Milton’s Paradise Lost: the characterisation of Satan. Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 24(1), 89–118. Recuperato da https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/233
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine whether and to what extent the English poet John Milton may have been influenced in the composition of Paradise Lost by the Old English poem known as Genesis B. The paper will examine similarities and dif-ferences in the characterisation of Satan and of the temptation of Adam and Eve in both poems. The comparison between two of the illuminations of the Junius 11 ms. and the corresponding passages in Paradise Lost will be part of the analysis.