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John Milton: Party of the Devil

Art of Darkness

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Milton's Paradise Lost and Samson Aganistas

Paradise regained is a lot shorter than Paradise Lost and it makes it sound like a sequel. Milton tries to position Jesus as a as a person with an interiority um as having an individualized psychology right which according to some scholars nobody had really attempted that since the writing of the bible so take that for what it's worth. There are still political intrigues going on in these later years 1667 the first edition of Paradise Lost comes out 1674 Milton is dead.

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