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When Milton invokes the muse at the opening of Paradise Lost, he also introduces ambiguities of her identity, religious insight, and poetic purpose. Drawing on queer readings of Milton’s work, this essay reveals an inherent—and vexed—eroticism in the relationship to the muse and artistic inspiration. Milton plays upon the verb ‘muse’ throughout Paradise Lost, often associating it with satanic deception, but that implication operates in contrast to Milton’s earlier work with the muse in his Latin elegies and poems to Charles Diodati. In the end, we find that by claiming his status as the epic poet, Milton must foreclose the abundant possibilities in the eroticism of musing.

Author

Kyle Pivetti

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN