Search -
Surprised by Sin : The Reader in Paradise Lost, Second Edition, With a New Preface by the Author
Surprised by Sin The Reader in Paradise Lost Second Edition With a New Preface by the Author Author:Stanley Fish In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of the devil's party with or without knowing it, the other proclaiming (in the tradition of Addison and C. S. Lewis) that the poet's sympathies are obviously with God and the angels loyal to him. The achie... more »vement of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis.« less