Abstract
M ILTON'S poem on the Creation represents the cosmos as a chain of creative energy beginning and ending with the divine creator. God makes the world in his own image, creating creative creatures: Eden is a poet's paradise in which Adam and Eve are natural artists, and nature itself is inspired to join in their morning hymn of praise to the heavenly originator.2 All creativity is therefore fundamentally narcissistic because it begins in God's self-love and the copying and multiplying of his own image. Appropriately perhaps, given his own interest in self esteem (Paradise Lost, 8.572) and reputation as
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