CRITICS

• ‘there is no evidence in Paradise Lost that Eve’s role is anything other than weak submission’ - Roy (?) Flannagan
• ‘It is unreasonable to call Milton a misogynist’ - Stocker
• ‘It is a heroic poem’ - Karen Edwards
• ‘It’s the nature of true heroic activity that Milton is interested in’, not war etc - Karen Edwards
• ‘For Milton and in Milton’s day, patience was a stronger virtue. The Latin root suggests suffering, or simply endurance’ - Karen Edwards on the b9 quote: ‘..the better fortitude of patience and heroic martyrdom’
• ‘The most important activity that takes place is the activity in the human mind’ - Karen Edwards on importance of b9 and b10
• ‘Making mistakes is not only valuable but crucial‘ - Karen Edwards