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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... Paradise Lost, these leaders might be neither so strident, nor so confident of success. Some chapters of this book, or parts of them, have been published as arti- cles, but I always intended that they would join together in this book. I ...
... Paradise Lost.” It is a mistake to suppose that he could ever have been intended for the popular personification of evil. —shelley, The Defence of Poetry 1. “Too full of the Devill” Paradise Lost is not an orthodox poem and it needs to ...
... Paradise Lost and in each case Satan stands for the unacceptable voice of the opposition: Tories thought Milton had repudiated the good old cause by “giv- ing the same characteristics to the apostate angels as were applicable to his ...
... Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), pp. 91– 118, shows how complex was the Romantic use of Satan, even in a political context. 10 Joseph Wittreich, “Milton's transgressive maneuvers: receptions (then ...
... Paradise Lost is a long poem, as epics are, and its more important meanings emerge gradually. So the order of chapters in this book, after the first, is governed very roughly by the struc- ture of Paradise Lost, since I try to respect ...
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 |