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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... Testament, and where the opponents are a bit more evenly matched. Behind the attractiveness of Milton's Satan, as most unprejudiced readers usu- ally soon notice, is the problem of God. Indeed that is what the poem pro- poses to solve ...
... Testament, whether in the references to Leviathan (in Job 41.1 for example), to Yahweh's victories over Sea and River (common in the Psalms, e.g., 14.1–5, 77.6; cf. Hab. 3.8–15), or to the chaos of teh ̄om (Gen. 1.2, “the deep” of the ...
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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 |