critics Flashcards
William Blake in marriage of heaven and hell about the way that Milton wrote about the angels/ devils and why
The reason Milton wrote
in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is
because he was a true Poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.
Blake on Marriage of heaven and hell on Miltons role in the poem
Milton brings himself into his poem
repeatedly, with regard to his blindness and his political predicament. The frustrations and
anger of the poem intrude time and again and are refracted through Satan.
evidence (textual and contextual) about Blake’s quote on how Milton inserts himself into the poem
Blindess: both the politicla entrapment of the restauration and the physical blindness that he developed
In the poem there are multiple examples of a motif of blindness/ sight e.g. in the invocation ‘what in me is dark/ illumine’
addison on the digressions in pl (2)
1) he calls them ‘unnecessary digressions’
2) he then says ‘I must confess there is so great a Beauty in these very digressions, that I would not wish them out of the poem
Pope on the clearness of Miltons speeches
there is frequently such transposition and forced construction, that the very sense is not to be discovered without a second or third reading
Jonathan Richardson on Milton’s english
Milton’s language is English, but ‘tis Milton’s English; ‘tis Latin, ‘tis Greek English; not only the words, the phraseology, the transpositions, but the ancient idiom is seen in all he writes
according to St. Augustine, how did God create all things, and what is the meaning of bad?
God created all things without exception good, and because they are good, no nature (reality) is bad and the word Bad denotes merely the privation of good
according to St. Augustine what perverts things from being good?
bad things are good things perverted, this perversion arises when a conscious creature becomes more interested in itself than God
what did the fall occur according to C.S. Lewis
the Fall is simply and solely Disobedience- doing what you have been told not to do
how was the fall punished according to st augustine in de civ. dei
since the fall consisted in man’s disobedience to his superiour, it was punished by man’s loss of authority over his inferiours; that is chiefly, over his passions and his physical organism
what was the impact of man being ruled by his inferiors? (st. Augustine de civ. dei)
this disobedience of man’s organism to man is specially evident in sexuality as sexuality now is but would not have been before the fall
what is thomas netwons view on satan?
Satan is a compulsive liar whose every utterance must be read with suspicion
