AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, November 1st, 2005
Neil Forsyth. The Satanic Epic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Milton studies have been waiting for this book. The established orthodoxies about Satan are long due for a good shake-up, and Neil Forsyth provides one. He is an expert on the devil, evidenced in his earlier book The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth (Princeton, 1987), and the present book proceeds from that, but with a Miltonic occasion. It was provoked by Milton criticism of the twentieth century, most of which, in Forsyth's view, has obscured the attractiveness of Satan. He believes that, "[w ]ithout that sympa...
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