The temptations we face are driven by a need to push everything to destruction, and it seems that this is getting more intense. Charlton calls…
Posted: 24 January 2021
Categories: Poetry
Tag: John Milton
Posted: 10 January 2021
Categories: Christianity, Poetry
Milton is worth reading and re reading in this crisis. He has the stratagem of hell understood. If you cannot attack directly, subvert. This is…
Posted: 16 December 2020
Categories: Poetry
Yes, we are still in Paradise Lost, but this is book two, where Satan is taking counsel from the fallen Gods as to what he…
Posted: 9 December 2020
Categories: Poetry
This is the end of book one of Paradise Lost. It is the council held in Hell, before Adam. Milton is speculating. But he has…
Posted: 2 December 2020
Categories: Poetry
There has been a war in heaven, and Milton was fairly sure that Lucifer looked noble. That which seems fair may be foul. The dread…
Posted: 25 November 2020
Categories: Poetry
Tolkien knew his Milton, and the spokesbeing of Mordor, the servant of Sauron, had no name. Which is to be converged, and cursed. In this…
Posted: 18 November 2020
Categories: Poetry
This is one of the more famous passages from Paradise, with the quote everyone knows: Better to reign in Hell. It is not. Is this…
Posted: 28 October 2020
Categories: Poetry
More Milton. The state of Satan described, and his fall attributed to Jealousy at the state of Man. The lines here are telling, and No…
Posted: 21 October 2020
Categories: Poetry
I have had enough of the Victorians for a while. A long while. Let’s go for one of the other greats; Milton. In doing this,…