...transformative power is affirmed when Adam first sees her after her "forming": a Creature . . . ... so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World,...her summ'd up, in her contain'd And in her looks. (8.470-74) The primal power of Eve is that she infuses "sweetness" into Adam's "heart" and the "spirit...

...man an image or copy of himself: 6 Under his forming hands a Creature grew, Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all...her contain'd And in her looks, which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her Air inspir'd The spirit...

...his hands; Under his forming hands a Creature grew, 470 Manlike, but different sex, so lovly faire. That what seemd fair in all the World, seemd now Mean,...her containd And in her looks, which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her A ire inspir'd The spirit...

...control, is what prepares us for the radical revisionism of Adam's reaction at his first sight of Eve: what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd. . . . Shee disappear'd, and left me dark, I wak'd To find her, or for ever to deplore Her loss, and...

...Paradise Lost, John Milton devotes thirty magnificent lines to Adam's sleeping contemplation of a person "so lovely fair, / That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now / Mean" (196). In his sleep "Shee disappear'd, and left me dark, I wak'd / To find her, or for ever to deplore...

...metaphor can be adapted to suggest a bold argument: And in her looks, which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her Aire inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight. (VIII, 474ff) The central image around which...

...Satan when he sees Eve alone for the first time shortly afterward.9 Just as she appeared to Adam to be "so lovely fair, / That what seem'd fair in all the...now / Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd" (8.471-73), so, in Satan's eyes, "What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more, / She most, and in...

...far other than any of those he had erewhile surveyed and named : "A creature Manlike, bat different sex so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, wern'd now Mean ; or in her tumm'd tip, in her contain'd, And in her kokt, which from that time infused...

...now Mean, or in her summed up, in her contained And in her looks, which from that time infused 475 Sweetness into my heart unfelt before And into all...air inspired The spirit of love and amorous delight. She disappeared, and left me dark; I waked To find her, or for ever to deplore 480 Her loss, and other...

...species, the fair sex; we all assent to the description which Adam gives of his partner; a creature So lovely fair. That what seem'd fair in all the world,...contain'd. And in her looks; which from that time infus'd Sweetness into his heart, unfelt before. And into all things from her air inspir'd. The spirit...