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Yes. Blake's line is oft-quoted: "[Milton] was of the devil's party unawares". Stanley Fish's reading is that Milton expected that his readers' enjoyment of an
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Yes. Blake's line is oft-quoted: "[Milton] was of the devil's party unawares".
Stanley Fish's reading is that Milton expected that his readers' enjoyment of and/or sympathy for and/or identification with Satan would bring them to recognize that their (our) point of view is tarnished by their (our) sinful nature.