1. Just reading books 1-3 of Paradise Lost and have to agree with Blake that Satan is the real hero of the book.
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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11. Milton - blind, defeated republican living through royalist counter-revolution- surely feels affinity for demons making new life in hell
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