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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... fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.”7 Percy Shelley, in an essay “On the Devil, and Devils,” wrote 3 John M. Steadman, “The Idea of Satan as the ...
... fallen angels so desperately relevant. A lot hangs on God's “self-tempted, self-deprav'd.” Alastair Fowler manfully rescues God in his comment on this passage by arguing that Milton means “the angelic species fell by intramural ...
... fallen angels would be eternally damned because they believed what their “great leader” told them, “faithfull how they stood” (1.611)—and they have even less reason than Eve to expect him to lie. The fate of those unsuspecting legions ...
... fallen angels is abstract and schematic; the concluding books act out what it means experientially. . . . Adam and Eve and their offspring could all share Satan's fate; some, who pray and repent and persevere, will escape it. 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 |