Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Letters at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His research interests include John Milton and early modern England, post-colonialism, post-modernism (especially Salman Rushdie), and the philosophy of Jacques Derrida. His recent publications include Jacques Derrida: Acts of Reading, Literature, and Democracy (as co-editor; 2009); “Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe” in Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture (2012); Jacques Derrida: intermission scenes of reading and literature (as co-editor; 2014); and Milton Lecture Series: Readings in and from Brazil (as co-editor; 2016).
This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton’s early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.