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Robin Kolwicz wrote.

> Gotta run - more later.  I'm interested in hearing more about
> PJB Jr.'s British socio-historical interpretations - I'm not so
> well-educated in English history that I can see character
> similarities, etc.  But I'd like to be.  Bybybyby-----
 

Robin, I think that it is very likely that Milton, who had
participated in England's only civil war, would have drown on
his own personal experiences in creating his literary interpretation
of the great civil war in heaven. In reading Books V and VI I was
struck by how many of the angels' arguments against Satan's 
rebellion seem to mirror the old divine right of kings argument. I
could well imagine many of the King's supporters using simular
sounding protests against Cromwell's rebellion.

Paul John Barnette Jr.


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