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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > I'm still an English professor. Shoot.
 
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post-feminist rimjob
Jan 15, 2005

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either

Brainworm posted:

As a rule: Satan makes PL readable, since he's the only character with any interior and, frankly, any fathomable motivations. The relationship between Adam and Eve is marginally interesting, and anyone from Heaven is insufferably boring. But overall, I think Books I, II, and IV set standards that the rest of the text can't live up to.

Have you given serious consideration to putting 'schoolmaster of souls' as your job description

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post-feminist rimjob
Jan 15, 2005

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either

Brainworm posted:

I have now.

Seriously, though. Read Book III of Paradise Lost and tell me you loved it. That the conversation between God and Jesus about the fate of humanity was just as sexy as Satan's vaunting inner turmoil.

I don't know, I guess I can't help but feel like that segment is undercut by the fact that Milton was hardly even a nominal Christian by the time that he was dictating it

(edit: I think this is what William Empson refers to when he says that Milton "barely manages to keep his temper with the poem's God" in Milton's God)

post-feminist rimjob fucked around with this message at 03:27 on May 7, 2009

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > I'm still an English professor. Shoot.