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 xvi
... thought . But the materialism , literalism , cynicism , and above all the idolatry with which Satan infects humanity are impossi- ble to sustain without the simultaneous alienation of human life into symbolic form , and the progressive ...
... thought . But the materialism , literalism , cynicism , and above all the idolatry with which Satan infects humanity are impossi- ble to sustain without the simultaneous alienation of human life into symbolic form , and the progressive ...
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... thought ? As yet this world was not , and Chaos wild Reign'd where these heavens now roll , where earth now rests Upon her centre pois'd ; when , on a day , ( For time , though in eternity , applied To motion , measures all things ...
... thought ? As yet this world was not , and Chaos wild Reign'd where these heavens now roll , where earth now rests Upon her centre pois'd ; when , on a day , ( For time , though in eternity , applied To motion , measures all things ...
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... thought So unimaginable as hate in heaven , And war so near the peace of God in bliss With such confusion : but the evil soon Driven back ; redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung , impossible to mix With blessedness . Whence ...
... thought So unimaginable as hate in heaven , And war so near the peace of God in bliss With such confusion : but the evil soon Driven back ; redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung , impossible to mix With blessedness . Whence ...
Contents
The World of John Milton and Paradise Lost | ix |
Contents Book I | 9 |
Book IV | 105 |
Copyright | |
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