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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... 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 difficulty he uses to accomplish this unexpected ...
... things to be and with what justification. Of course, such self-consciousness is irony's art; and in Paradise Lost it compels us to consider not simply what John Milton thinks is right and true, good and just (as though this were ...
... thing to the human mode, are, at the same time, so inconsistent with truth, and the exalted ideas which we ought to entertain of divine things, that they must be highly offensive to all such as have just impressions of religion, and ...
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