期刊名称：Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
印刷版ISSN：0034-429X
出版年度：1995
卷号：31
期号：2
页码：63-71
语种：English
出版社：Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
摘要：In Paradise Lost II.531-8 modern editors often see an allusion to Josephus’ account of armies appearing in the sky shortly before the fall of Jerusalem. In fact, reports of spectral soldiers and aerial battles were quite common in seventeenth-century English pamphlets, such as Mirabilis Annus and Five Strange Wonders . Airy apparitions do not seem to have held much fascination for Milton. But this does not mean that he could not exploit their popular appeal and their political symbolism in Paradise Lost .
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