John Milton – Dark Brightness

This week I am on a project to find beauty, truth and that which we used to praise. Because we have forgotten our poets, who…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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