Observations upon the Irish Devils: Echoes of Eire in Paradise Lost.(Critical essay)

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Observations upon the Irish Devils: Echoes of Eire in Paradise Lost

Maura Grace Harrington

Seton Hall University

harrinma@shu.edu

Harrington, Maura. "Observations upon the Irish Devils: Echoes of Eire in Paradise Lost". Early Modern Literary Studies 12.3 (January, 2007) 3.1-17 .

While John Milton's Paradise Lost is too complex to be read as an allegory upon which one-to-one meanings can be imposed, its complexity lends the text to being read as a work that has meanings other than its literal meanings. While Paradise Lost is certainly literally about the fall ...

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