Enjoying these posts, Jason. I'm shamefully green when it comes to Paradise Lost, and earlier this year I read Harold Bloom's 'The Western Canon.' Bloom holds up Milton's Satan as the greatest thing (character) since sliced bread... so well-rounded perspectives like this are helpful.
If you can read through book 3 aloud without weeping, you might not be a man.
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I’m 38 and have never been compelled to read Paradise Lost before now. It was on my shelf, and now it will be by my bedside.
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Enjoying these posts, Jason. I'm shamefully green when it comes to Paradise Lost, and earlier this year I read Harold Bloom's 'The Western Canon.' Bloom holds up Milton's Satan as the greatest thing (character) since sliced bread... so well-rounded perspectives like this are helpful.
Perhaps the greatest character in English (outside Shakespeare)