"so, by distributing accounts of Creation in the mouths of various characters-Satan (as rumor), Uriel, Raphael, the chorusing angels, Adam, Eve-he keeps always alive throughout the poem God's continuous creativity."

"Milton's great fondness for Latinisms, far from being pedantry, is largely explained by their active literal meanings. Insult, for example, is literally to leap on or at; tempt Is to handle, touch. D. C. Allen (The Harmonious Vision [Baltimore, 1954], 107) re-marks: "It is not only Satan who is made visible by motion; whole scenes are made flesh by this forceful use of verbs.""

Sex

"This does not in the slightest impair his deep reverence. His view of sex is one with his view of God, all facets of whose creation he finds good. While leaving unmistakable the physical relation between Adam and Eve, he relegates this sexual imagery to the surrounding universe to vigorously express God's generative abundance."

Satan, Sin & Death. Dialectics of uncreation

"compare A&E’s nuptials to the “monstrous transformation of love into double incest, rape, cannibalism, and fearful deformity” of Sin’s birth of death, leaving Sin XYZ and Satan to “go about the universe, tarnished but still magnificent "

"No other epic can equal the beautifully articulated simplicity of Milton's double plot, in which the fall of man not only parallels the fall of Satan but is caused by i and is redeemed by Christ, the cause of Satan's fall."

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