![]() 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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