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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 821.4 EAN: 9780486442877 ISBN: 048644287X Label: Dover Publications Manufacturer: Dover Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: June 10, 2005 Publisher: Dover Publications Studio: Dover Publications Editorial Review: Product Description: First published in 1667, Paradise Lost is considered to be the greatest epic poem in English literature. Its roots lie in the Genesis account of the world's creation and Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden; it also references tales from the Metamorphoses, the Iliad and Odyssey, and the Aeneid. Notes by John A. Himes. Average Rating:
 Rating: - No Viagra for THIS poet!!First off, let me say that we're not talking here about the famous Qi gong instructor named John Milton. We're talking about the famous 17th-century English poet who wrote _Paradise Lost_ and _Paradise Regained_, two of the most wonderfully overlong Christian poems in the history of Western literature. Your English teacher will tell you that _Paradise Lost_ "narrates the story of Adam and Eve's disobedience, explains how and why it happened, and places the story within the larger context ... Read More Rating: - Cheap and well doneA heafty volume for a thrifty price. Good binding, clean & easy to read font and enough room in the margins for notes if you are a student. A great side item if you get the Dore' engravings of Paradise Lost [which are just quotes from the book and not the whole poem] and want to read more than just the famous lines. Unabriged and yet small enough to get away with lugging around. Rating: - From the Publisher"'From almost the moment of its publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate both how audacious an undertaking it represents, and how astonishing its immediate and continued success was. Over the course of twelve books Milton wrote an epic poem that would ''justify the ways of God to men,'' a mission that required a complex drama whose source is both historical and deeply personal. The struggle for ascendancy between God and Satan is played out across ... Read More |
