TY - BOOK ID - 18015939 TI - The satanic epic PY - 2003 SN - 0691113394 0691099960 9786612157691 1282157698 1400825237 9781400825233 9780691113395 9780691099965 9781282157699 6612157690 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Christian poetry, English KW - Devil in literature. KW - Epic poetry, English KW - Evil in literature. KW - Fall of man in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - 820 "16" MILTON, JOHN KW - -Evil in literature KW - -English Christian poetry KW - English epic poetry KW - Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN KW - -Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN KW - 820 "16" MILTON, JOHN Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN KW - -820 "16" MILTON, JOHN Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699--MILTON, JOHN KW - Devil. KW - Evil in literature KW - Good in literature KW - Milton, John, KW - Rubinstein, Anton, KW - Characters KW - Devil in literature KW - Fall of man in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Milton, John KW - Milṭan, Jān, KW - Milʹton, Dzhon, KW - Милтон, Джон, KW - Miltūn, Zhūn, KW - Miltonus, Joannes, KW - J. M. KW - M., J. KW - Milʹton, Īoann, KW - Milton, Gioanni, KW - Milton, Giovanni, KW - מילטאן, יאהאן KW - מילטאן, יוחנן KW - מילטון, ג׳והן KW - מלטן, יוחנן KW - Good and evil in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18015939 AB - 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. 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." 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. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects. Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of Paradise Lost in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own. ER -