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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... relationship between humanity and truth. For each modern, the very language of argument is idiosyncratic and difficult, values of expression shared by Jeremiah, Luther, and John Milton. As T. S. Eliot declares, after Johnson: “In Milton ...
... relationship between creator and creature, deity and its revelation, to bear on his poetics and Paradise Lost in particular, loosely following the sequence in which its dramatis personae are introduced to us. Thus the fourth chapter ...
... relationship between the two, as a proper account of human being. To that extent, right understanding in tragedy has an affinity with Wittgenstein's much-maligned statement in the Investigations that philosophy “leaves everything as it ...
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