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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... insists, that is universally taken as a sign that we must with- draw any nascent sympathy for the Devil. I will argue instead that this assump- tion violates something more important—the tragic status of the hero, what the Shelleys took ...
... edition (1998), suppressing the reference to De doctrina Christiana, but still insisting “one need not infer that God is harsh to the angels.” 25 Fish, Surprised, p. 215. Diane McColley, Milton's Eve (Urbana 14 introduction.
... insists on this here, scattering words for king through the passage, and ending the scene with a royal gesture as Satan (“the monarch”) stands up to prevent reply. And Satan's own words are, as often, ambiguous. Line 452, as Fowler ...
... insists that these stories are debased versions of biblical narratives: one of his few examples is the story that the serpent, original of Pherecydes' Ophioneus (Greek ophis ser- pent), who battled with Kronos, a variant of the Zeus ...
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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 |