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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... . Yet in saying so, he does not fall prey to the notion of some correspondence between divine and human, negative or otherwise, that might collapse the picture we hold of God with deity per se. In the writings of Luther and Calvin.
... picture of Addison honoring the poet's memory by relieving an indigent Milton daughter),8 that is because John Milton genuinely disturbs him, with the result that the Life is acute, even febrile in its sensitivity to its subject and so ...
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