milton, blake, and satan
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WHO WAS JOHN MILTON?
1608-1674
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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and The New Reform
Army
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Aeropagitica 1644
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Paradise Lost 1667
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Blank Verse and Religious Traditions
The Verse “The Measure is English Heroic Verse
without Rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; the Rhyme being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age…”
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Poetry and Theodicy
Instruct me for thou know’st; Thou from the first/ Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread/ Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss/ And mad’st it pregnant: What in me is dark/ Illumine, what is low raise and support;/ That to the heighth of this great Argument/ I may assert Eternal Providence/ and justify the ways of God to men.
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Milton’s Satan
Heav’n calld Satan, with bold words Breaking the Horrid Silence thus began.“If thou beest hee; but O how fall’n! how chang’d”
“Awake, Arise or be forever Fallen!”
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Satan: Imagination and Freedom
“…Hail horrors, hailInfernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.The mind is its own place, and In itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.…And what Should I be, all but less than heeWhom Thunder hath made Greater? Here at least We shall be free;…Here we may reign secure, And in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.”
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Satan’s Cohort Beelzebub Moloch “Horrid King besmear’d with
blood/ Of human sacrifice, and parent’s tears…” Chemos (Heathen Deity) “th’obscene
dread of Moab’s Sons…” Rimmon (Syrian god) “Whose delightful
Seat Was fair Damascus…” Baalim and Astaroth “Astarte, Queen of
Heav’n , with Crescent Horns.” Ashtaroth (plural of the gods prefixed by
Baal, and of the forms of the goddess Ashtoreth.)
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Satan’s Cohort… Cont. Thammuz “Whose annual wound in
Lebanon allur’d/ The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate.”
Rimmon (Syrian god) “Whose Delightful seat was in Fair Damascus.”
Dagon “Sea Monster” Belial “….came last, than whom a
Spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself: to him no temple stood or Altar smok’d; yet who more oft than hee in Temples and at Altars, when the Priest Turns Atheist…”
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The Romantic Obsession with Paradise Lost
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William Blake: Engraver, Poet, Painter, Visionary 1757-1827
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Milton’s Satan and the “Fortunate Fall”
All Bibles or sacred codes. have been the causes of the following/ Errors. 1.That Man has two real existing principles Viz: a Body and a Soul./ 2.That Energy. Called Evil. Is alone from the Body. & that Reason./ calld Good. is alone from the Soul./3. That God will torment Man in Eternity for following his Ener-/gies.
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Blake’s Illustrations of Milton’s Paradise Lost
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Newton’s Rainbow
"Poetry is true in that it corresponds to a Reality transcending the world of sense. According to Blake, poetry is the vehicle of Vision, and 'Vision or Imagination is a Representation of what Eternally Exists, Really & Unchangeably,' outside 'the things of Vegetative & Generative Nature.'"- MH Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp.
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Innocence vs Experience
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The Text-Image & Laocoön
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Blake’s God & Popular Culturehttp://Johnny Depp- William Blake
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Blake and Allen Ginsberg
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