Word: satanizing
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...vast retreat from the crisp analysis of his earlier writing, is less literary criticism than a diatribe against Christianity. Empson fears that literary criticism has fallen into the hands of T. S. Eliot and the "neo-Christian movement." which judges all literature from a Christian viewpoint. Empson finds Satan a more likable character than God in Paradise Lost. Milton's God is "astonishingly like Uncle Joe Stalin" down to "flashes of joviality" and "bad temper," writes Empson. He tortures angels and mankind for his own amusement. Satan, on the other hand, behaves like a democrat toward fellow fallen angels...
...ringing a bell, dancing in the streets, clapping and singing. His sermon to the swallows, his conversion of his friends are as beautifully rendered as they are in The Little Flowers of St. Francis. ''God forgive me," Francis tells his Sisters, "I feel sorry even for Satan. There is no creature more unfortunate, more wretched than he, because he was once with God, but now he has left Him, denied Him and he roams the air inconsolable." Brother Mouse. Kazantzakis' prose moves with the stateliness of a funeral dirge as Francis, bleeding from the Stigmata and nearly...
...early writing, derivative and totally unoriginal, deeply dissatisfied him. "Many times I contemplated suicide because of my intellectual impotence. . . . Satan did not allow me to express my individuality." And though he was outwardly a normal Hasid, the people of his town suspected his untraditional intellectual activity. His brother went to Russia and involved himself in the revolutionary movement...
...your blessing," cried Mrs. Bernard J. Gaillot, 41, one of the three who had been named in the excommunication order. "But I am not apologizing. Look up to heaven and admit that you know it's God's law to segregate. Don't listen to Satan, listen to God." Startled, Rummel said nothing, and Mrs. Gaillot was led away by some of the women pilgrims. "May God have mercy on you!" she said to the archbishop as she rose from her knees...
...angelic-looking, penniless, tattered, and an instant success in Paris' literary cafes. The aging Victor Hugo hailed him as "Shakespeare enfant" another poet called him "Satan amidst the doctors." Paul Verlaine, then 27 and already an established poet, fell helplessly in love with...