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The very devil of a devil for Guy Fawkes Night
So says Milton! His Satan is the one we all think of, whether we know it or not, when we think of the Devil. In this passage from Book Six of Paradise Lost, the armies of Heaven and Hell are preparing… more →
Baroque in Hackney
John Milton's Paradise Lost
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luciferion wrote 1 day ago: For Christmas, I am gonna ask Santa for a copy of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It’s an e … more →
When We All Get to...HELL?
Dave wrote 2 days ago: Annie Dillard: An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: “If I did not know about God … more →
quote: paradise lost by john milton
calvinoconnor wrote 1 week ago: When violence was ceas’d, and war on earth, All would have then gone well, peace would have cr … more →
"My Sentence is for Open War": Fragment 12ff
jacquesfuton wrote 1 week ago: “The most compelling aspect of the debate between Milton’s Satan and his fallen minions … more →
Poem(s) of the Moment
thrdr wrote 1 week ago: W. S. Merwin again. Or rather a selection, with brief introductions for each, by Merwin of five love … more →
"Ancient of Days"
djgrieser wrote 1 week ago: Here’s the Blake image I referred to in my Sunday sermon I mentioned that the shafts of light … more →
INDIA, A MULTI-NATION STATE.
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movid wrote 1 week ago: Historically it is very easy to prove that India is a State consisting of many Nations. A state is a … more →
November 23 in history
homepaddock wrote 2 weeks ago: On November 23: 1644 Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton was p … more →
Tearing Down the House Within
Billy Triste wrote 2 weeks ago: There is a house within. It is the place where Jesus preached his greatest sermons. It is where Budd … more →
Echo - from 'Comus'
Laria wrote 2 weeks ago: From ‘Comus’ ii. Echo SWEET Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv’st unseen Wi … more →
Paradise Lost Book IV, Part I
Ajax wrote 2 weeks ago: Milton’s “Paradise Lost” is an exquisitely detailed masterpiece of epic literature that outlines the … more →
Paradise Lost Book IV, Part II
Ajax wrote 2 weeks ago: Satan’s plan becomes etched in stone when he eavesdrops on Adam speaking to Eve. But first he is app … more →
NaNoWriMo: Analecta
bigwords88 wrote 3 weeks ago: Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point o … more →
Have you considered how your light is spent?
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secular parent wrote 4 weeks ago: Although John Milton wrote this famous Italian Sonnet a year after being blinded, there are people … more →
Timothy Thornton wrote 4 weeks ago: “… [Paradise Lost] is a further text in which the concept of human freedom is absolutely … more →
Today in 1674 - John Milton Died
rcottrill wrote 1 month ago: John Milton is considered one of England’s greatest writers. An accomplished scholar, he wrote in bo … more →
from harold bloom's anxiety of influence: clinamen, or poetic misprision & milton's paradise lost
peter wrote 1 month ago: Clinamen, which is poetic misreading or misprision proper; I take the word from Lucretius, where it … more →
the very devil of a devil for Guy Fawkes Night
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: So says Milton! His Satan is the one we all think of, whether we know it or not, when we think of th … more →
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elrambo wrote 1 month ago: …”It’s a small world,” because then you’d have one of the top-ten … more →
