{"product_id":"milton-and-the-rise-of-russian-satanism-9781442612938","title":"Milton and the Rise of Russian Satanism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo European Devil can claim so long or so political a connection with Russian culture as Milton's Satan. Russian poets came to know him before they heard of Dante, Marlowe, Tasso, or of the devils of the Baroque era. This may explain why Milton's influence was so intensely felt by the Russians, especially during the Romantic age. In this, the first study in any language of Milton's reception in Russia, that influence is traced to an early translation of \u003cem\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/em\u003e uncovered by Valentin Boss in the Moscow archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBritish radicals who professed to believe that Milton himself was of the Devil's party were, with the notable exception of Byron and Tom Moore, hardly known by Pushkin and his contemporaries. Russian literary Satanism, although derived from Milton, thus developed its own characteristics which tsarist censors considered morally subversive.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA brilliant pleiade of poets from Zhukovsky to Lermontov gave Milton's outcast from Heaven some of his many mod\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408350454103,"sku":"9781442612938","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442612938.jpg?v=1730502550","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/milton-and-the-rise-of-russian-satanism-9781442612938","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}