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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... hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end 44-45 Him ... sky Compare Isaiah 14:12 : " How art thou ... hope never comes that comes to all In Dante's Inferno ( 1321 ) the gates of Hell are inscribed with the words ...
... hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end 44-45 Him ... sky Compare Isaiah 14:12 : " How art thou ... hope never comes that comes to all In Dante's Inferno ( 1321 ) the gates of Hell are inscribed with the words ...
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... hope , when everlasting Fate shall yield To fickle Chance , and Chaos judge the strife : The former vain to hope , argues as vain The latter : for what place can be for us Within heaven's bound , unless heaven's Lord supreme We ...
... hope , when everlasting Fate shall yield To fickle Chance , and Chaos judge the strife : The former vain to hope , argues as vain The latter : for what place can be for us Within heaven's bound , unless heaven's Lord supreme We ...
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... hope conceiving from despair Since " despair " literally means " absence of hope , " the fallen angels have reversed logic . 788-790 In heavenly spirits ... relent ? Raphael's rhetorical question indicates that his story is a " sign ...
... hope conceiving from despair Since " despair " literally means " absence of hope , " the fallen angels have reversed logic . 788-790 In heavenly spirits ... relent ? Raphael's rhetorical question indicates that his story is a " sign ...
Contents
The World of John Milton and Paradise Lost | ix |
Contents Book I | 9 |
Book IV | 105 |
Copyright | |
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