[Milton-L] Is this Milton allusion apt?

[David Mercier]

The allusion may be apt but ironically the critics would claim the same about Thomas Jefferson on more than one occasion throughout “the constitutional struggles of the 1780s and 90s,” Jefferson’s critics compare him to the Miltonic Satan.  The opposition party “deplored his Satanic obduracy and implacability”. What do the Dems think about Jefferson???
 
For Quotes See     Davies, Tony. "Borrowed Language: Milton, Jefferson, Mirabeau."  Milton and
Republicanism (1995): 254 - 271.
 


--- On Sat, 9/6/08, James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com> wrote:

From: James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Is this Milton allusion apt?
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 9:45 AM

No, the allusion is not apt.  Forgetting that the people they're
talking about are human beings, they lose a little bit of their
humanity themselves.  McCain isn't Satan, and even Obama knows that.

Jim R

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Nancy Charlton <pastorale55 at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Did you all see this in the NY Times today? It's in the
"comments" (#260
> following an opinion piece titled "The Real John McCain" and
singled out in
> a sidebar:
>
> The RNC has exposed John McCain's true face--he's Dorian Gray,
he's Faust,
> he's Satan in Paradise Lost. Except that Milton was a far superior
> speechwriter to the hacks paid by the McCain campaign. Whoever said
> Faust/Palin '08 above said it right--or maybe Faust/Stalin '08 is
more
> accurate. What a joke.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/opinion/05fri1.html
>
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