Everybody gets a name check, and he gives all the gods little jobs to do inside the new hierarchy.Īll of the religions of the world before Christianity foresaw enormous cycles of activity. Milton doesn’t just tell the great story of the Judeo-Christian tradition he also goes to great lengths to include all of the Greek myths and all of the Persian myths and all of the Egyptian myths. But what it really is, when you spend a little time with it, is an index to all these myths. It’s the greatest epic poem in the English language-everyone agrees-but nobody can get through it because it’s like ninety percent junk. RITCHIE: Paradise Lost is one of the great books that nobody’s ever read. Matthew Ritchie discusses the influence of John Milton’s 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost in his 2008 exhibition The Morning Line.ĪRT21: Could you say a little about the inspiration behind the videos The Iron City (2007) and Raphael (2007) that will be featured in your upcoming project The Morning Line (2008)? Isn’t part of the organizing principle behind the works John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667)? What drew you to a text that’s over 300 years old?
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