The Satanic EpicThe Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. |
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... devil. in literature. 6. evil in literature. pr3562 .f64 2003 821 .4—dc21 2002025138 5. devil I. title. british library cataloging-in-publication data is available publication of this book has been aided by grants from the 450th ...
... devil” (3) The Narrative Theology of “therefore” 12 (4) “The most heroic subject that ever was chosen” 8 18 1. a ... Devils into Dwarfs” (5) The Critical Need for the Narrator 77 77 81 86 87 90 (6) Epic Similes (7) Erring (8) ...
... Devil as its representative. This kind of discourse has a long history and is common in times of crisis, like the present, or the early Christian Era, or indeed the years of the English Revolution through which Milton lived. I have ...
... Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.”1 Blake's aphorism has become so famous that it is hard to hear what it says. I think that, like much Romantic criticism, it is right, or at ...
... Devil, and Devils,” wrote 3 John M. Steadman, “The Idea of Satan as the Hero of Paradise Lost,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 120 (1976):253–94; Nicholas von Maltzahn, “Milton's Readers,” in The Cam- bridge ...
Contents
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2 THE EPIC VOICE | 77 |
3 FOLLOW THE LEADER | 114 |
4 MY SELF AM HELL | 147 |
5 SATANS REBELLION | 167 |
6 THE LANGUAGE OF EVIL | 188 |
7 OF MANS FIRST DIS | 217 |
9 SATAN TEMPTER | 259 |
10 IF THEY WILL HEAR | 285 |
11 AT THE SIGN OF THE DOVE AND SERPENT | 301 |
THE STRUCTURES OF PARADISE LOST | 314 |
SIGNS PORTENTOUS | 329 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 349 |
INDEX | 371 |
THE ATTENDANCE MOTIF AND THE GRACES | 239 |