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Article: The failed jeremiad in Samson Agonistes.(Critical essay)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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During his travels through Italy, John Milton identified himself in an autograph book with the following epithet from Horace: "Coelum non animum muto dum trans mare curro": "someone who brings a mind not to be changed by place." (1) The immediate echo of this phrase is Satan's proclamation of himself as a Cartesian being ("One who brings / A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. / The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n"), suggesting that Satan's utterance contains a considerable degree of Miltonic self-parody. (2) This instance of self-critique is part of a larger trend in Milton's later writing. Paradise Lost Paradise ...
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