1. Just reading books 1-3 of Paradise Lost and have to agree with Blake that Satan is the real hero of the book.
8. Conversely, where does God's authority in Paradise Lost derive from except raw force? He defeated the rebels in arms. So: might = right?
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9. Milton's blindness, so movingly described in beginning of book 3, helps explain hidden affinity poet felt for Hell: "darkness visible"
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10. Milton was blind when composing the poem but guided, he says, by an inward illumination. So like Satan in realm of "darkness visible"
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