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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... speeches of Milton's God, yet are appalled at what ensues for us as readers when we do so, since Milton's God has the effect not only of making his truth unpalatable but also of rendering its justification injurious, intolerable. I need ...
... speeches unexamined and unchallenged.) 16 The “essential and intrinsick” moral of Paradise Lost can then freely project the widely diverging ideas and interests of its readers, with interpretation serving as a blind for the poem's real ...
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