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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost

Enlightening and enthusiastic ... Offers an expansive history of the epic’s reception as it was interpreted and then put to use ... A writer like Reade offers not commandments for living but interpretations for analysis, and if that seems less authoritative then that’s precisely the point.
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Paradise Lost can still be illuminated — and, indeed, illuminating — if we approach it with care, and What in Me Is Dark shows us how ... This book-by-book approach could easily become dull, but in Reade’s hands it is a delight. He possesses a sharp eye for the details of Milton’s verse and his writing crackles with imaginative energy.
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Reade is an academic, but his book is mercifully unlike most academic works. It is witty and sardonic ... Reade writes himself into the book, not as a sleuth-researcher nor a lofty pedagogue. He is sensitive and shockable.
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