![]() ![]() He declares his intention to write in English rather than another language such as Latin, and then ponders what genre to adopt: epic, tragic, or lyric ( RCG 2). In Book 2 of The Reason of Church Government, Milton declares his desire to write a great work that will serve to glorify England as earlier poets had glorified their native lands and cultures: "what the greatest and choycest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might doe for mine" ( RCG 2). Genre, therefore, is important not only as a mode of framing a story, but also as a model that produces expectations in readers. From the one point of view it is an expression of opinions and emotions from the other, it is an organization of words which exists to produce a particular kind of patterned experience in the readers" (2). Lewis wrote, "Every poem can be considered in two ways - as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. Watch a Mini-lecture on Epic Poem and Epic Hero Introduction Topics: "Answerable Style": The Genre of Paradise Lost ![]()
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