critics #crynow

• Julian Lovelock:

  "In Satan, we have the determination to take good and turn it into evil"
• Diane McColley:

  "Milton saw himself in Eve, not only in cultivation of garden but also her plea for freedom and a little solitude"
• Barbara Lewalski:

  "Adam only falls because Eve does"
• Cs Lewis :

  "peeps who say they aint chillin with my guy Milly's god are also opps to the real 1"- pls don't actually write this

  "Many of those who say that they dislike Milton's god mean they dislike god"- pls actually write this
• William Hazlitt:

  "Satan's ambition was the greatest, and his punishment was the greatest"

  -disagree
• John Carey:

  "Satan's natural tendency, when caught unaware, is to love.. hatred is an effort to his will"
• Percy Shelley:

  "Milton's devil as a moral being is far superior to his god"
• William Blake:

  "God's language is 'flat, uncoloured, metaphorical' compared with Satan's vivid and inspiring rhetoric"
• Rachel Falconer: 1

  "What wisdom can there be to choose...without the knowledge of evil? We have to start with evil, and get to know good through knowing evil"
• Rachel Falconer: 2

  "if Satan is the external representation of Milton's rebellious ego, then the Miltonic superego (Puritan Conscience) places him in Hell, in order to exorcise that rebellious nature. In this reading Hell becomes the space in which ambition is most firmly confirmed"
• Douglas Bush: ” in Paradise Lost there is very little that is specifically Puritan”