The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . thought the mighty GodHow, once again, those bright Angelic seatsAnd beauteous realms, created by His will,He might repeople with a better raceAnd nobler, than the vaunting myrmidonsWho hghtly forfeited their heaven-born Holy God resolved, beneath the vast,Celestial firmament (tho still withinHis boundless realms), to form a beauteous WorldWith overarching skies and waters wideAnd earthly creatures filled, in place of thoseWhom headlong He had hurled from His abode. So sings Caedmon, in the opening theme
The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . thought the mighty GodHow, once again, those bright Angelic seatsAnd beauteous realms, created by His will,He might repeople with a better raceAnd nobler, than the vaunting myrmidonsWho hghtly forfeited their heaven-born Holy God resolved, beneath the vast,Celestial firmament (tho still withinHis boundless realms), to form a beauteous WorldWith overarching skies and waters wideAnd earthly creatures filled, in place of thoseWhom headlong He had hurled from His abode. So sings Caedmon, in the opening theme of his poem,the creation of the Starry Universe and of Man. In Paradise Lost, Adam beseeches Raphael, if itbe permissible, to relate, How first began this Heaven which we beholdDistant so high, with moving fires adornedInnumerable ; and this which yields or fillsAll space, the ambient Air, wide interfused,Embracing round this florid Earth ; what causeMoved the Creator, in his holy restThrough all eternity, so late to buildIn Chaos ; to which the affable Archangel replies :. <^ ^4^^^^^ A Comparative Study 153 Know then tliat, after Lucifer from Heaven Fell with his llaming legions through the DeepInto his place, and the great Son returnedVictorious with his Saints, the OmnipotentEternal Father from his throne beheldTheir multitude, and to his Son thus spake : * I can repairThat detriment, if such it be to loseSelf-lost, and in a moment will createAnother world ; out of one man a raceOf men innumerable, there to here, ////, by degrees of merit raised,They open to themselves at length the 7vayUp hither, tinder long obedience Earth be changed to Heaven, and Heavento Earth. A very important point of divergence between thetwo poems occurs in this part of the narrative. InCaedmon it is the Deity, who with celestial majesty,goes fortii into Chaos to create the Universe ; andin this, the poet is in perfect accord with both ac-counts of the Creation comprised in t
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