...have been blind to the world) insisted on inviting this 62 Milton, Paradise Lost, II, 622-6:'Created evil, for evil only good; / Where all life dies, death.../ Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, / Abominable, unutterable, and worse.' 63 What Jack refers to as the 'Daudel' or 'Dawdle' was Warnie's...

...splendid lines of the English poet, had he told us of — An universe of death, which God by enrse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies,...breeds Perverse all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, unutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras,...

...allusion to Milton's "Universe of death" as symbolic of the gigantic international African slave trade: Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, "Gorgons" and "Hydras,"...

...infernal" (VII. 658-60) — but in its exuberant parody of Pandemonium, itself already parodic of Creation: A Universe of death, which God by curse Created evil,...breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than Fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceiv'd, Gorgons and Hydras,...