Satan, Satire, and Burlesque Fables in Paradise Lost

Transmutations of Satan and Caesar: The Grotesque Mode in Milton's Paradise Lost and Lucan's Pharsalia

“…Two insightful articles on the parodic intent of Paradise Lost were published already in the 1970s: see Gossman and Wooten. For useful studies concerning the heroes of these two epics, see Blissett (“Lucan's Caesar”), Danziger, and Stein.…”