The satanic epic
Ranges over diverse topics - from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy.
Print Book, English, ©2003
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 382 pages ; 24 cm
9780691113395, 9780691099965, 0691113394, 0691099960
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Introduction
A brief history of Satan
The epic voice
follow the leader
"My self am hell "
Stan's rebellion
the language of "evil"
Of mans first dis
Homer in Milton: the attendance motif and the graces
Satan tempter
"If they will hear"
At the sign of the dove and serpent
"Full of doubt I stand": the structures of Paradise Lost
Conclusion: signs portentous