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 44
... wide into the realm of night , Scorning surprise . Or could we break our way By force , and at our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection , to confound Heaven's purest light ; yet our great enemy , All incorruptible ...
... wide into the realm of night , Scorning surprise . Or could we break our way By force , and at our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection , to confound Heaven's purest light ; yet our great enemy , All incorruptible ...
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... wide open stood , 885 That with extended wings a banner'd host Under spread ensigns marching , might pass through With horse , and chariots , rank'd in loose array , So wide they stood ; and like a furnace mouth , Cast forth redounding ...
... wide open stood , 885 That with extended wings a banner'd host Under spread ensigns marching , might pass through With horse , and chariots , rank'd in loose array , So wide they stood ; and like a furnace mouth , Cast forth redounding ...
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... wide , Wider by far than that of after - times Over mount Sion , and , though that were large , Over the promis'd Land to God so dear , By which , to visit oft those happy tribes , On high behests his angels to an fro Pass'd frequent ...
... wide , Wider by far than that of after - times Over mount Sion , and , though that were large , Over the promis'd Land to God so dear , By which , to visit oft those happy tribes , On high behests his angels to an fro Pass'd frequent ...
Contents
The World of John Milton and Paradise Lost | ix |
Contents Book I | 9 |
Book IV | 105 |
Copyright | |
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