Paradise Lost

On the episode on dragons Josh made a reference to William Blake's epic poem Paradise Lost.

Oh yeah. But that was John Milton. William Blake lived over a century later but wrote a lot of poetry on Biblical themes as well.

Milton was an incredibly prolific writer who dealt with the onset of blindness as he wrote Paradise Lost and Blake was a true renaissance man who spearheaded the romantic movement.

So that's what William Blake's Paradise Lost is about, right?

One was John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost and then of course Dante's Divine Comedy. This is where we got the idea that Satan was an angel expelled from heaven because of his pride who then said and I will defeat the Lord.

On the episode on dragons Josh made a reference to William Blake's epic poem Paradise Lost.

But that was John Milton.

So that's what William Blake's Paradise Lost is about, right?

One was John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost and then of course Dante's Divine Comedy. This is where we got the idea that Satan was an angel expelled from heaven because of his pride who then said and I will defeat the Lord.

On the episode on dragons Josh made a reference to William Blake's epic poem Paradise Lost.

Oh yeah. But that was John Milton. William Blake lived over a century later but wrote a lot of poetry on Biblical themes as well.

So that's what William Blake's Paradise Lost is about, right?

And the poem Paradise Lost.

Steve Bannon asked, "have you read Milton's Paradise Lost? Satan was the number one archangel; he led the rebellion because he couldn't be the top guy. I'd rather reign in hell than serve in heaven."

Epstein replied that he had seen the quote in a documentary called American Dharma, and Bannon noted he loves Milton's Paradise Lost, which is why many quotes from that book appear in the film.

from our anglo-saxon but even going further back than that so you know Milton rights Paradise Lost the idea of freedoms

Milton really ... Paradise Lost his great poem ...

he also has a starring role in Paradise Lost. Horrid king besmeared with the blood of human sacrifice and parents tears. Milton's not messing around is he?

I think I talked about this where they were fucking it was the guy Milton who wrote Paradise Lost.

He got real into this English and this I think is a 1600s there was this political movement where they're like oh and we're the political party where you can we can behead Kings if they fuck up.

He wrote Paradise Lost.

what was it Milton? wasn't didn't Milton write paradise laws to justify the way of God the ways of God to man it's a hell of an ambition in some sense that's what this entire religious endeavor does the literary endeavor as well what's the point of all this what's the meaning of this

John Milton's Satan is the villain of the piece in Paradise Lost, right? His whole thing is that he's rebelling against God, not because he's doing anything good or anything noble or anything true or beautiful, but because he would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

And over the course of time, I think Western culture now sees Satan as the hero and Satan is the hero because Satan is narcissistic and into himself.

And I think if you look at the things that blind people are capable of imagining, you know, like John Milton writing Paradise Lost as a blind person, you know, there is this incredible richness to consciousness that vision has nothing to do with.

John Milton's Paradise Lost.

I think it's an illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost, like that painting, the really dramatic, uh, I want to say broke painting of Lucifer with like a blue eyes. He's like crying. He's just being cast out of heaven. Onions like that. He's so beautiful.

Milton's Paradise Lost was among the four books Charles Darwin took along on HMS Beagle, Eurasum Versus.

Let us make now man in our image, man in our similitude, and let them rule over the fish and foul of sea and air, beast of the field at over all the earth, and every creeping thing that creeps the ground.

This said he formed the Adam, the Oman dust of the ground and in thy nostrils breathed the breath of life. In his own image he created thee, in the image of God expressed, and thou becamest a living soul.

Milton's Paradise Lost was among the four books Charles Darwin took along on HMS Beagle, Eurasum Versus.