| The Satanic Epic Subjects: MILTON JOHN 1608–1674. PARADISE LOST; CHRISTIAN POERTY ENGLISH -- HISTORY AND CRITICISM; EPIC POERTY ENGLISH -- HISTORY AND CRITICISM; MILTON JOHN 1608–1674 -- CHARACTERS -- DEVIL; DEVIL IN LITERATURE; EVIL IN LITERATURE; 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 is Professor of English Literature at the University of Lausanne and the author of The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth (Princeton). |