{"product_id":"the-satanic-epic-neil-forsyth-9780691113395","title":"The Satanic Epic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Satan of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton's Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem's sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was \"of the Devils party\" even though he set out \"to justify the ways of God to men.\" In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics--from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Satan emerges as the main challenge to Christian belief. It is Satan who questions and wonders and denounces. He is the great doubter who gives voice to many of the arguments that Christianity has provoked from within and without. And by rooting his Satanic reading of \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e in Biblical and other sources, Forsyth retrieves not only an attractive and heroic Satan but a Milton whose heretical energies are embodied in a Satanic character with a life of his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Neil Forsyth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691113394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691113395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.14w x 1.02d","brand":"Neil Forsyth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981098549503,"sku":"9780691113395","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a9c1757-c734-4700-90de-73494a2819d6.jpg?v=1683253646","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-satanic-epic-neil-forsyth-9780691113395","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}