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Satanism & the Left-Hand Path

Surprised by Sin

The Reader in Paradise Lost

by Stanley Fish

An influential reader-response study proposing that Paradise Lost intentionally draws the reader into admiring Satan in order to expose the reader's own fallen judgement. It reframed the long debate over Milton's Satan and remains central to Milton criticism.

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