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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... knowledge without the instrument of analogy; yet each argues that it is a device easily subject to abuse, especially in those benighted suppositions and speculative flights which either tacitly deny or openly disdain the intractable ...
... knowledge of the Delphic dicta, so apposite for Milton's argument in Paradise Lost: meden agan, “nothing in excess,” and gnothi sauton, “know yourself"—that is, in Walter Burkert's fuller rendering, “know that you are not a god.” 5 The ...
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