Paradise Lost AO3 Flashcards
Who’s reading is new-historicist?
Christopher Hill
“The fallen reader betrays himself when he feels obliged to pass moral judgement on every action or utterance…
we cannot help but read into them moral implications that are not relevant until the Fall has occurred.”
- Stanley Fish
Which critic argues that Milton re-enacts the Fall through the reader’s response?
Stanley Fish
Who said “Milton writes English like a dead language.”?
TS Eliot
Christopher Hill argues that Milton was “grappling with
problems set by the failure of God’s cause in England.”
“Milton’s Devil as a moral being…
is far superior to his God” - PB Shelley
Who was PB Shelley?
A Romantic poet and critic.
“Eve’s failure is
a failure of the will.”
- Stanley Fish
“Eve fell
through Pride.” - CS Lewis
“fallen and unfallen meanings
of a word jostle together.”
- Christopher Ricks
“The wreckage of
1660” - Christopher Hill
