Be careful with that business about capitalizing “hell.” John Milton surely believed in the place, and likely (I am not sure) capitalized it; but in those days, all sorts of nouns were capitalized, that are not now. (As in modern German, where all nouns are capitalized.) At any rate, my Cambridge University Press edition of Paradise Lost (edited by John Broadbent), which I have always supposed to be an authoritative modern (1972) version, does not capitalize “hell,” nor “heaven,” either.

As I keep telling Rick Brookhiser, we need a style book here.