Paradise LostParadise Lost, by John Milton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
As a young student, John Milton fantasized about bringing the poetic elocution of Homer and Virgil to the English language. Milton realized this dream with his graceful, sonorous Paradise Lost, now considered the most influential epic poem in English literature. A retelling of the biblical story of mankind's fall from grace, Milton's epic opens shortly after the dramatic expulsion of Satan and his army of angels from Heaven. What follows is a cosmic battle between good and evil that ranges across vast, splendid tracts of time and space, from the wild abyss of Chaos and the fiery lake of Hell to the Gate of Heaven and God's newly created paradise, the Garden of Eden. Controversy still swirls around Milton's magnificent and sympathetic characterization of Satan, a portrait so compelling that many critics have maintained that he is the true hero of the story. David Hawkes is Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. His books include Idols of the Marketplace (2001) and Ideology (second edition, 2003), and he has contributed articles to The Nation, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Journal of the History of Ideas. |
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Page 223
... earth now Seem'd like to heaven , a seat where gods might dwell , Or wander with delight , and love to haunt Her sacred shades : though God had yet not rain'd Upon the earth , and man to till the ground None was ; but from the earth a ...
... earth now Seem'd like to heaven , a seat where gods might dwell , Or wander with delight , and love to haunt Her sacred shades : though God had yet not rain'd Upon the earth , and man to till the ground None was ; but from the earth a ...
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... earth ; there , first receiv'd His beams , unactive else , their vigour find . ' Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious , but to thee earth's habitant . And for the heaven's wide circuit , let it speak The Maker's high ...
... earth ; there , first receiv'd His beams , unactive else , their vigour find . ' Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious , but to thee earth's habitant . And for the heaven's wide circuit , let it speak The Maker's high ...
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... earth , so steadfast though she seem , Insensibly three different motions move ? Which else to several spheres thou must ascribe , Mov'd contrary with thwart obliquities , Or save the sun his labour , and that swift Nocturnal and ...
... earth , so steadfast though she seem , Insensibly three different motions move ? Which else to several spheres thou must ascribe , Mov'd contrary with thwart obliquities , Or save the sun his labour , and that swift Nocturnal and ...
Contents
The World of John Milton and Paradise Lost | ix |
Contents Book I | 9 |
Book IV | 105 |
Copyright | |
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