Alison Shell

Nov 27, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Alison Shell

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Nov 27, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Andrea Brady |Alison Shell |Sophie Oliver |Juliette Bretan

In one of his “Notes on Militant Poetics” (2012–13), the British poet Sean Bonney comments on the transformation of Satan and the devils into snakes in book ten of Paradise Lost. Satan has just returned from Eden, and is bragging about his successful temptation of Eve and Adam. He expects to hear a “universal shout and high applause” (X.505), but the angels have been turned into serpents and can only hiss.