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An ecocritical view of Paradise Lost

Focusing on Book IX, Jonny Patrick asks what Milton’s presentation of the Fall can teach us about our own climate crisis

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According to Milton, ‘[A]ll was lost’ (IX. 784) at the Fall: the close, intimate relationship between God, humans and angels; mutual understanding between the sexes; a limitless capacity for intellectual growth and understanding; political freedom; immortality, and so much more besides. However, in recent years, Milton criticism has come to focus increasingly on the ways in which the Fall marks a profound and irreversible change in the relationship between humans and the environment. As Pete Bunten argues:

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