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 made use of the Satanic tradition. It may be an additional bonus of this study to discover how Milton anticipated, and even shaped, the combat discourse of our current leaders with their talk of “darkness visible” and “all hell ...
... Milton reimagines for us, since a mistaken idea about it has been widely accepted in recent years. It is the combat myth, I argue, that has always been at the center of that history, and Milton knew it. His more perceptive readers have ...
... 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 ...
Neil Forsyth. As to the Devil, he owes everything to Milton. Dante and Tasso present us with a very gross idea of him: Milton divested him of a sting, hoofs, and horns; clothes him with the sublime grandeur of a graceful but tre- mendous ...
... 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 impact of materialist criticism, and feminist theory, most of the ...
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 |