Milton: Paradise LostThis volume offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to one of the most influential texts of western literature. This guide highlights Milton's imaginative daring as he boldly revises the epic tradition, brilliantly elaborates upon Genesis, and shapes his ambitious narrative in order to retell the story of the Fall. The book considers the heretical dimensions of Paradise Lost and its theology, while situating Milton's great poem in its literary, religious, and political contexts. A concluding chapter addresses the influence of Milton's sublime poem as a source of creative inspiration for later writers, from the Restoration to the Romantics. Finally, the volume offers an extremely useful and updated guide to further reading, which students will find invaluable. |
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Contents
Paradise Lost in Miltons career and age | 1 |
2 Lycidas | 7 |
3 Writing in the English Revolution and the Restoration | 11 |
4 Milton s blindness | 19 |
5 Miltons theological heresies | 23 |
Interpreting Paradise Lost 6 Say first what cause Paradise Lost and beginnings | 29 |
Paradise Lost and epic ambition | 31 |
8 The voice of the poet | 37 |
12 God providence and free will | 72 |
13 Miltons Eden | 78 |
14 Adam and Eve and human sexuality | 81 |
15 The material cosmos of Paradise Lost | 89 |
16 War in Heaven | 93 |
17 Creation | 100 |
18 The tragedy of the Fall | 103 |
19 Postlapsarian history and the inner paradise | 111 |
9 Answerable styles | 46 |
daring ambition and heroic ideology | 55 |
geographical place and internal state | 66 |
The literary afterlife of Paradise Lost | 122 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Milton: Paradise Lost Landmarks of World Literature |
| Author | David Loewenstein |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 052153979X, 9780521539791 |
| Length | 136 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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