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Sutton, Martin
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Fiction
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2014
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Historical Novel Society
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English
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Paradise Lost
β Scribed by John Milton; John A. Himes
- Book ID
- 100193575
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Year
- 2014;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 871 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780486264653
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Milton's great seventeenth-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of the Western world. Its roots lie in the Genesis account of the world's creation and the first humans; its focus is a poetic interpretation "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe / With loss of Eden."
In sublime poetry of extraordinary beauty, Milton's poem references tales from Ovid's Metamorphoses , the Iliad and Odyssey , and Virgil's Aeneid. But one need not be a classical scholar to appreciate Paradise Lost. In addition to its imaginative use of language, the poem features a powerful and sympathetic portrait of Lucifer, the rebel angel who frequently outshines his moral superiors. With Milton's deft use of irony, the devil makes evil appear good, just as satanic practices may seem attractive at...
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