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Metaphor in literature. --- Fall of man in literature. --- Milton, John. --- Milton, John, --- Paradise lost (Milton, John)

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"What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or designs that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the trials, or testing situations, which require interpretation, choice, and action from its characters. Waddington situates the poem within the context of providentialism's centrality to seventeenth-century thought and life, arguing that Milton's own conception of providence was deeply influenced by the theology of Jacob Arminius. Using Milton's Arminian conception of free will, he then looks at the providential trials experienced by angels and humans. Finally, the work explores the ways in which providentialism infiltrates various kinds of discourse, ranging from military to medical, and from political to philosophical."--Jacket.

Providence and government of God in literature. --- Milton, John, --- Rubinstein, Anton, --- Paradise lost (Milton, John) --- Milton's Paradise lost (Milton, John) --- Paradise lost and other poems (Milton, John) --- Fall of man (Milton, John)

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An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost. It is an indispensable resource for any serious student or scholar of Milton's Paradise Lost.

Epic poetry, English --- Comparative literature --- Fall of man in literature. --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives. --- Milton, John, --- Rubinstein, Anton, --- Paradise lost (Milton, John) --- Milton's Paradise lost (Milton, John) --- Paradise lost and other poems (Milton, John) --- Fall of man (Milton, John)

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No European Devil can claim so long or so political a connection with Russian culture as Milton's Satan. Russian poets came to know him before they heard of Dante, Marlowe, Tasso, or of the devils of the Baroque era. This may explain why Milton's influence was so intensely felt by the Russians, especially during the Romantic age. In this, the first study in any language of Milton's reception in Russia, that influence is traced to an early translation of Paradise Lost uncovered by Valentin Boss in the Moscow archives.British radicals who professed to believe that Milton himself was of the Devil's party were, with the notable exception of Byron and Tom Moore, hardly known by Pushkin and his contemporaries. Russian literary Satanism, although derived from Milton, thus developed its own characteristics which tsarist censors considered morally subversive. A brilliant pleiade of poets from Zhukovsky to Lermontov gave Milton's outcast from Heaven some of his many modern masks. Towards the end of the nineteenth century these inspired the alarming paintings and sculptures of Mikhail Vrubel who, like Lermentov, was obsessed by the demonic. In cultural influence Goethe's Devil had by then eclipsed Milton's, but Goethe's did not survive 1917 with the same political authority. Boss concludes with a description of what happened to Milton's Satan after October 1917, when his connection with the English Revolution gave him an edge his German rival lacked.Lunacharsky, Lenin's Commissar for Education, who admired Milton's Arch-rebel, steered him past Left-wing Communists who continued to regard Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained as Christian propaganda. Despite such attacks, Milton's Satan resurfaced under Brezhnev to bask in Soviet pedagogic approval as an Anti-Imperialist and 'the embodiment of love of freedom.' Russian notions of good and evil changed before the Revolution and will change again under glasnost' and perestroika. But no literary character has reflected such changes more dramatically than Milton's Satan, who managed to be both a hero to Romantic poets and Marxist critics.

Devil in literature. --- Russian poetry --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union). --- History and criticism. --- Milton, John, --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Influence. --- Paradise lost (Milton, John) --- Milton's Paradise lost (Milton, John) --- Paradise lost and other poems (Milton, John) --- Fall of man (Milton, John)