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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... passage, in which Milton implicitly tars the court of Charles II with the same brush, somehow escaped the censor.11 The passage about the “disastrous” eclipse comes only a few lines later. 11 Christopher Hill, Milton and the English ...
... passage reappears, though this time, since it imputes the creation of evil to God (the Latin Trem- ellius-Junius Bible Milton was using reads “facientem pacem et creantem malum”),15 the passage requires a different exegesis to fit the ...
... passage twice on this page. This occasioned a most unusual lapse by the excellent editor, Maurice Kelley, who in his note says he cannot find the other place where Milton uses the same explanation of Isaiah 45.7, but there it is, a few ...
... passage, that if God had been interrupted while he was creating the world, he might well have smashed it down: all this is curious in a poem that claims to have left behind “the wrauth / Of stern Achilles” and other epic heroes (9.14–15) ...
... passage by arguing that Milton means “the angelic species fell by intramural temptation, from within their own kind, whereas the human species will fall by temptation from without, from the other (sort, species).” And he proposes that ...
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 |