The Victorian critic and biographer of Milton compares three great imaginings of the Devil: the very real enemy who troubled Luther, the fallen archangel of Paradise Lost, and Goethe’s sardonic Mephistopheles. Further essays follow on English literary history, including a portrait of the Restoration poets around Dryden and Davenant.
Lively Victorian criticism for students of Milton, Goethe and the literary history of evil. Download the free EPUB.