[PW] politicians metaphorically represented in Milton's Paradise Lost

[Dennis Lien]

At 02:25 PM 10/10/2007, you wrote:
>Here is an article which mentions by name a politician particularly disliked
>by Milton (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury):
>http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1991/autumn/freedman-john-milton/
>Scroll to the last several paragraphs to see the possible connection to
>Paradise Lost.

I don't recall hearing of specific politicians as targets in PL, but
I've blissfully forgotten most of the Milton I was crammed with in
graduate school.  I did think that if any satire had been mooted
that it was likely Asimov would have annotated same in the
following book (being the sort of detail I'd thought would have
appealed to him), but his footnote on the conclave in hell scene
have no hint of this.

Author          Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Title           Asimov's annotated Paradise lost. Text by John Milton, 
notes by Isaac Asimov.
Published       New York, Doubleday, 1974.
Description     761 p. 24 cm.


However, using the same subject headings in MLA as were used for
the article cited above (english politics + paradise lost), I
found reference to this second article which might be worth
checking out:

Document Author:        Jameson, Fredric

Title:     Religion and Ideology: A Political Reading of Paradise Lost

Publication Details:    In (pp. 47-57) Zunder, William (ed. and introd.) , 
Paradise Lost. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1999. xi, 204 pp..

Notes:  (Reprint of 45-56 in Barker, Francis, ed.; Hulme, Peter, ed.; 
Iversen, Margaret, ed.; Loxley, Diana, ed. Literature, Politics, and 
Theory. 1986.)

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