- Nov 2022
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delong.typepad.com delong.typepad.com
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Milton,for example, wrote more or less lengthy headings, or "Arguments," as he called them, for each book of Paradise Lost.
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- Oct 2022
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Macaulay claimed that his memory was good enough to enable him to write out the whole of Paradise Lost. But when preparing his History of England, he made extensive notes in a multitude of pocketbooks of every shape and colour.
By what method did Macaulay memorize Paradise Lost?
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- Sep 2021
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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What people don’t understand about faith is that you have to choose it.”
Yes, that's straight up Milton.
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- Dec 2019
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frankensteinvariorum.github.io frankensteinvariorum.github.io
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It was indeed a paradise
At this moment the Creature appears more strongly associated with Adam than with Satan, apparently born into a "paradise."
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Pandæmonium
Pandaemonium ("All demons" in Latin), was the capital of Hell in Milton's Paradise Lost (II.119-69).
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Like Adam
From Milton's poem the Creature imagines himself as an Adam created by an all-powerful god (Victor). Later in the paragraph, the Creature considers if a more apt comparison for his condition might be to Satan, cast out from his companions and protector.
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sent me forth to this insupportable misery
The Creature compares himself to Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost, which he has previously heard when Felix read the poem aloud.
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Evil thenceforth became my good.
The Creature refers to Satan's confession in Milton's Paradise Lost: "all Good to me is lost; / Evil be thou my Good" (4:109-110).
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frankensteinvariorum.github.io frankensteinvariorum.github.io
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While neither the feeling of remorse of self accusation mingled with my throes; although the contempt with I was treated also prevented any sublime defiance to have a place in my mind.
The Thomas Copy qualifies the Creature's comparison of himself to Milton's Satan. Both are outcasts treated with contempt, but unlike Satan, the Creature suffers this condition without conceiving himself as proudly rebellious against his oppressors.
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- Jul 2018
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idhmcmain.tamu.edu idhmcmain.tamu.edu
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Others more mild
Milton is godlike in the sublime pathetic. In Demons, fallen Angels, and Monsters the delicacies of passion living in and from their immortality, is of the most softening and dissolving nature. It is carried to the utmost here.
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To be invulnerable in those bright arms,
This same Sin, a female, and with a feminine instinct for the showy & martial is in pain lest death should sully Satan's bright arms.
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Their song was partial
nothing can express the sensation one feels at 'Their song was partial &[c]. Examples of this nature are divine to the utmost in other poets—in Caliban 'Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments' &c[.] In Theocritus'———Polyphemus—and Homers Hym to Pan where Mercury is represented as taking his 'homely fac'd' to heaven. There are numerous other instances in Milton— 'Tears such as Angels weep'.
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Dear Daughter
Satan's progeny [not highlighted by Keats, but stated in margin pp. 44-5]
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Pensive here I sat Alone;
divine to the utmost
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44
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[Note in Keats's Hand Text circles around the outside margins (top, bottom, left, right) of the two pages, 44 and 45]
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