Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton's IronyWhy do we hate Milton's God? Victoria Silver reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense. |
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... desire to transfigure fundamentally the meaning things have for us—to work out our salvation through words or, as the Investigations say, to show the fly the way out of the bottle.4 Irony for Milton is the expressive means and salient ...
... desire to better if not transcend human nature as we find it, and at the same time to acknowledge the finitude of the creature on which human vanity appears doomed to founder. That is why irony and drama show such an entire affinity for ...
... desire of independence; in petulance impatient of controul, and pride disdainful of superiority.” with this lesson for the attentive reader: that John Milton in life offers a truer fable about human presumption than even Paradise Lost ...
... desire not to be made uneasy by the order of truth Milton is thought to assert in Paradise Lost. Thus the critic may undertake to reconcile or oppose the poem's ostensible argument by referring it to extrinsic forces superior to ...
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