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197: Sympathy and Satan

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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Milton Did Not Mea Well, This Is a Great Question

When i was in college at the university of tronoan, i had my first milton class. Idon't ven think i took a course on millon. I think it was just like a survey course of romanticism,. Milton is not classically or typically romantic. But there's this history of interpreting milton that comes romanticism. It usually is always crystallized in that one question: Is satan, a hero or not? In paradise lost? Is he someone to emulate or not? And romantics would say, yes, satan is the hero of paradise lost.

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