The Satanic Epic
The Satanic Epic The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby…
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The Satanic Epic
The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox.Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was of the Devils party even though he set out to justify the ways of God to men. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive.
He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects.Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth 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. It is Satan who