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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... Milton had “put such long & horrible Blasphemyes in the Mouth of Satan, as no man that feares God can endure to Read it, or without a poysonous Impression.”2 That view of Milton's Satan was prophetic, as well as perceptive, and it has ...
... Milton.”3 The post- Restoration world continued to read Milton's politics through Satan's. A dis- cussion in the London Chronicle of 1763–64 pitted Whig against Tory readings of Paradise Lost and in each case Satan stands for the ...
... Satan, even in a political context. 10 Joseph Wittreich, “Milton's transgressive maneuvers: receptions (then and now) and the sex- ual politics of Paradise Lost,” in Stephen Dobranski and John Rumrich, eds., Milton and Heresy (Cambridge ...
... Satan. In recent years, two other issues have dominated the debate: Milton's politics, especially his role in the English revolution and the ways in which his poetry can be read in the light of that role, and Milton's women. Under the ...
Neil Forsyth. Partly because of the implied politics, Milton's Satan has proved to be one of the most fertile characters in English literature—fertile of interpretation, of response, of rewriting—and unsettling, even threatening, because ...
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 |