This book offers a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that
suggests that a recovery of the vital intellectual ferment of the
new science, magic, and alchemy of the seventeenth century reveals
new and unexpected aspects of Milton's cosmos and chaos, and the
characters of the angels and Adam and Eve. After examining the
contextual references to cabalism, hermeticism, and science in the
invocations and in the presentation of chaos and Night, the book
focuses on the central stage of the epic action, Milton's unique
cosmos, at once finite and infinite, with its re-orientation of
compass points. While Milton relies on the new astronomy, optics
and mechanics in configuring his cosmos, he draws upon alchemy to
suggest that the imagined prelapsarian cosmos is the crucible
within which vital re-orientations of authority could have taken
place.
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