The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two Imparadis’t in one anothers arms The ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 garden and their own sometimes wayward impulses and passions; to work out their relat ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Law and Edict on us, who without law Erre not, much less for this to be our Lord, And ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 sponsibilities give the lie to Satan’s disparagement of their life as courtly servili ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 In Satan’s usurpation of a kingship properly belonging only to Christ, Milton alludes ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Milton stages the Nimrod episode as an overt statement of republican principles, with ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 the delightful Edenic garden. God created the garden and its inhabitants, he does not ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 his mind about his defense of that enterprise in Observations (1649).^129 Milton’s ce ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Earlier, in the exchange on the battlefield between Abdiel and Satan, Abdiel’s lan- g ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 To manifest thee worthiest to be Heir / Of all things, to be Heir and to be King” (6. ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none; freely we serve, ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 This first matter, emanating from God, is organized in a chain of being which is not ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 the angels do not yet know why the Son is thus elevated and what his elevation may me ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 ished the serpent; if he would keep her from such elevation he is not just, “Not just ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 the scientific orthodoxy of the moment cannot explain the ways of God and the order o ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Milton’s epic inscribes gender hierarchy, though in a complex and nuanced ver- sion. ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 and angels differ only in degree and humans can expect the gradual refinement of thei ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Miltonic Bard insists that she both delighted in and was fully capable of that knowl- ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 agreed (“I yielded”) to reject narcissism, to share love and companionship with Adam ...

“Higher Argument”: Paradise Lost 1665–1669 Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best,... Authority and Reason on her waite, A ...