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Page xvi
We seldom see Satan except at moments of high drama , but his career is epic . 3. Just how epic Satan's career is we can see only in the light of the whole poem . His revolt in Heaven depopulates it by drawing off perhaps a third of the ...
We seldom see Satan except at moments of high drama , but his career is epic . 3. Just how epic Satan's career is we can see only in the light of the whole poem . His revolt in Heaven depopulates it by drawing off perhaps a third of the ...
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But Mr. Rajan's view of Satan is less critical than it is historical . For Milton's contemporaries Satan was simply the Adversary whom John Calvin described as " an enemie that is in courage most hardie , in strength most mightie ...
But Mr. Rajan's view of Satan is less critical than it is historical . For Milton's contemporaries Satan was simply the Adversary whom John Calvin described as " an enemie that is in courage most hardie , in strength most mightie ...
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As the battle in Heaven was in one of its aspects actual for Milton , so was Satan himself . He believed in the existence of the historical Author of Evil at least in the Augustinian sense that evil is deprivation or negation of good ...
As the battle in Heaven was in one of its aspects actual for Milton , so was Satan himself . He believed in the existence of the historical Author of Evil at least in the Augustinian sense that evil is deprivation or negation of good ...
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Contents
Preface | vii |
Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals Cited in the Notes | xiv |
Bibliography of Books Dealing Mainly with Paradise Lost | li |
Copyright | |
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| Title | PARADISE LOST |
| Author | John Milton |
| Published | 1962 |
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