The Satanic EpicPrinceton University Press, 10. 1. 2009 - Počet stran: 400 The 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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... says. I think that, like much Romantic criticism, it is right, or at least helpful, except for the implied accusation of ignorance. Milton knew quite well what he was up to: even the fetters are deliberately donned. And there was a ...
... says the nameless monster to his creator: “I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the 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 ...
... say the least, interesting. Then we meet the enemy, God. The contrast is deliberate. His first words are a question ad ... says: that Reason and Judgment may have a field in which they may exercise themselves by choosing the things that ...
... says, and opens the treatise with an epistle that makes an impassioned defense of his freedom to find his own doctrine in the Bible (yp 6.123). This argument leads him to denounce the Calvinist views he had previously held (without ...
... says, “It appears that many of them revolted from God of their own accord [sua sponte] before the fall of man,” and cites several texts, none of which actually say what he wishes them to say (including John 8.44, which is about the ...
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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 |