Milton's endless perdition of nothing

[Anonymous No.2625796]

If you have insomnia, or would like to hear a crazy and bored evangelical maniac's carp version of the fall of man, by all means buy this book. If you wish the bible was more wordy and full of endless descriptions of nothing this book is for you. If you are a normal person and have absolutely no trouble sleeping avoid this garbage. If you're looking for a good book along these lines that won't bore you to tears, try Dante's Inferno. Al least he writes something that's interesting and at times amusing.

[Anonymous No.2625798]

>blogthread?
blogthread

[Anonymous No.2625801]

>>2625796
Review thread?

[Anonymous No.2625820]

Dear Anon,

I suspect that you are using some questionable hermeneutics in evaluating this central work of Western literature. No doubt, you are reading the poem according to the dictates of a neo-Christian critic, such as C.S. Lewis, or the didactic reader-response formulation argued by Stanley Fish. For a better understanding of the poem, I would suggest reading the criticism of John P. Rumrich, Stephen Dobranski, William Empson, and John Wittrich. Also of note is Wittrich's collection of Romantic criticism on Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost has always made the orthodox Christians nervous, so it is quite an irony that readers these days treat the poem like an evangelical tract. :/