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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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The Rebel Angels Following Their Failed Revolution

Milton invented the modern conception of what Satan is as a personality and he does it in this book. You do get Milton put in arguments for each book. There's actually a pretty good summary for each book at the front of them in later editions that Milton himself wrote, so they're very handy. Poets, please, please, continue on. I love poetry. Shouts out to Tom Will's new book, Phil Towney. Read that, please.

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