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By Christopher Ricks
Milton's Grand type has been vigorously attacked within the 20th century, and this ebook is an try and refute Milton's detractors through displaying the delicacy and subtlety that is to be present in the verse of `Paradise misplaced'
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Planners need to contrive; and Moloch toys with the word again contemptuously, tossing in the equally contemptuous sit: ‘For while they sit contriving, shall the rest…’. 13) thinking (and acting), and contrasts their military stance with the sitting-about of the not-numbered ‘they’: shall the rest, Millions that stand in Arms, and longing wait The Signal to ascend… And at that dramatic point, the superb upward thrust of sit, stand, ascend is razed by the deliberate bathos of sit again: Millions that stand in Arms, and longing wait The Signal to ascend, sit lingring here… The contrivers (the Belials) want to turn standers into sitters.
When Mr. Eliot faintly praised the leviathan simile, he was endorsed by Dr. ’2 Likewise with the sit/stand inconsistency. 17) that there has been a misreading. But it is as well to remember that there are such things as simple misreadings. The charges against Milton, then, can be simply classified. First, there are misreadings. Second, there are convincing accounts either of general faults in the Miltonic style, or of particular moments when the poet's mind was not fully on what he was doing. Third, there are the large-scale accusations of imprecision and insensitivity.
Is this then worst, Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in Arms? And at once he launches his argument, wheeling through six lines with a hawk's-eye view of their past torments, and plunging home with that sure was worse. But that telling reminder offers no pause, and Belial circles again, this time above their future torments. He drives relentlessly through ‘what if…or…what if…’, and then sweeps to his annihilating climax, foreseen and deliberately held back: What if the breath that kindl’d those grim fires Awak’d should blow them into sevenfold rage And plunge us in the Flames?