- Hardcover: 408 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (9 May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691099960
- ISBN-13: 978-0691099965
- Product Dimensions: 24.5 x 16.3 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,404,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Satanic Epic establishes Forsyth as our foremost scholar of Satan as a literary and cultural phenomenon. . . . The Satanic Epic is useful not only as a deft and fascinating reading of the most 'imposing' character in Paradise Lost but as a history of Satanic interpretation from the ancient world onward to Milton's own time. . . . Forsyth's scholarship re-creates and redefines the milieu out of which Milton's works emerged. In the process, it tells a fascinating story. As a result of his work, we are in Forsyth's debt. -- Michael Lieb, Milton Quarterly
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The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox.
Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was "of the Devils party" even though he set out "to justify the ways of God to men." In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics--from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects.
Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of Paradise Lost in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Absolutely love this Book - Must read Milton guide
29 Dec 2011
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I got my hands on this book after being frustrated by orthodox Milton studies which continue in the vein of Stanley Fish and CS Lewis' misguided attempt to make readers question their own honest responses to the text (readers will often feel sympathetic to the figure of Satan, who is bullied not quite fairly by an omnipotent deity). A modern/postmodern reading of Satan as the other, as the minority narrative, as the silenced voice etc is sorely lacking. My teachers told me that seeing Satan as a hero (as he was - and influentially so - to the Romantics) was "simplistic". Forsyth presents a broad overview of the background of the debate, and a critical eye to the character of Satan, in this fascinating and engaging book.
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