Milton's Paradise Lost

from Professor Kozlowski Lectures · host Benjamin Kozlowski

Professor Kozlowski dissects the first Book of Milton's Paradise Lost, and constructs an argument that Milton is making a case for the royalist faction in the 17th-century British Civil War.  Is Satan meant to be sympathetic?  Or is Milton trying to condemn the Parliamentarian rebels by comparing them to Satan?

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Professor Kozlowski dissects the first Book of Milton's Paradise Lost, and constructs an argument that Milton is making a case for the royalist faction in the 17th-century British Civil War. Is Satan meant to be sympathetic? Or is Milton trying to condemn the Parliamentarian rebels by comparing them to Satan?

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