| Infernal Triad: The Flesh, the World, and the Devil in Spenser and Milton: The Flesh, the World, and the Devil in Spenser and Milton Subjects: Spenser Edmund 1552?-1599 -- Religion and ethics; Milton John 1608-1674 -- Religion and ethics; Spenser Edmund 1552-1599 -- Influence -- Milton; One of the few theological formulas of medieval times to survive the scrutiny of the Reformation was that of the infernal triad of the sins of the Flesh, the World, and the Devil. Through a close analysis of the structural and thematic role that this triad plays in Books I and II of the Faerie Queene and in Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained , and Samson Agonistes , Patrick Cullen explores the imaginative continuity between two of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. |