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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 achievement of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin was to reconcile the two camps by subsuming their claims in a single overarching thesis: Paradise Lost is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are - that is, fallen - and the poem's lesson is…
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3 editions- Other · English · 1998Harvard University Press · 361 pages · 9780674857476
- Other · English · 1997Macmillan Press · 361 pages · 9780333625156
- Other · English · 1969St. Martin's Press · 9780312777005
Authors and readersChristianity and literatureEnglish Christian poetryEnglish Epic poetryFall of man in literatureHistoryHistory and criticismMilton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost