Lucretian subversion: Animal speech and misplaced wonder in Paradise Lost 9.549-66
The language used by the Satanic serpent in his encounter with Eve in Book 9 of Paradise Lost is key to Eve's subsequent temptation and eventual Fall. The first danger of the temptation scene, as John Leonard has argued, lies in her being drawn into a debate about the nature of the serpent'...
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Wiley
2018
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