Notes
See my “Abdiel and the Son in the Separation Scene,” Milton Studies 18 (1983), 129–43.
S.A. Demetrakopoulos, “Eve as a Circean and Courtly Fatal Woman.” Milton Quarterly 9 (1975), 100. See also Arnold Stein. Answerable Style: Essays on Paradise Lost’ (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1953), p. 94: Joseph Summers, The Muse’s Method: An Introduction to ‘ParadiseLost’ (Cambridge. Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press. 1962), p. 171; Barbara K. Lewalski, “Milton on Women—Yet Once More,” Milton Studies 6 (1974), 13; Don Parry Norford, “The Separation of the World Parents in Paradise Lost,” Milton Studies 12 (1978), 10; Burton J. Weber, “The Non-Narrative Approaches to Paradise Lost: A Gentle Remonstrance,” Milton Studies 9 (1976), 99–100.
This paper was given at a special session on “The Separation Scene in Paradise Lost” at the Modern Language Association Convention in December 1985.