Hero or fool?
Subtitle: A study of Milton's satan
By: by G. Rostrevor Hamilton.
Series: P. E. N. books
Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin ltd.
Published: 1944
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Milton, John, 1608-1674; Fall of man in literature; Devil in literature
Description: We may, if we will, identify ourselves wholly with Satan's party, or we may be so much on the side of the angels that we cannot give the devil his due. The two extremes are set before us plainly in Raleigh's attractively human but not quite judicial book on Milton, where he remarks of Satan that "his very situation as the fearless antagonist of Omnipotence makes him either a fool or a hero." And Milton, he continues, "is far indeed from permitting us to think him a fool."--Page 7.
Notes: "First published in 1944."