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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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The Death of Satan

Milton published this with the lines numbered, not every line, but like every five or ten or whatever. Nobody had ever done that before, except in like ancient poetry. And this is Milton's statement of like, this belongs on the same shelf as Edmund Spencer is the fairy queen as Homer as all these things. That's his way of telling you that.

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