The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915)

But Warren had something in mind beyond illustration. There is an ethical dimension to his form of reading. Describing how “[m]yopic interpreters of the Odyssey, possessed of no imagination, have for centuries tried to find Homer’s world within the narrow limits of Hellas and the Levant”, he believes that poor readers have not only “done violence” to poetry, but, as teachers, become “blind leaders of the blind”. There is a knowing irony here. Like Homer, Milton had lost his sight by the time he composed his epic. In order to regain an accurate vision of Paradise Lost, Warren thinks we need to learn to see anew.

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