- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (30 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140424261
- ISBN-13: 978-0140424263
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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- #98 in Books > Fiction > Poetry & Drama > Poetry > By Period > 16th to 18th Centuries
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Long regarded as one of the most powerful and influential poems in the English language, Paradise Lost still inspires intense debate about whether it manages "to justify the ways of God to men" or exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God. John Leonard's illuminating introduction is fully alive to such controversies; it also contains full notes on language and many allusions to other works.
Paradise Lost conjures up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and puts a naked Adam and Eve at the very center of its story.
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John Milton's epic tale that aimed to "justify the ways of God to man" written at the end of his life when he was embittered by the loss of his sight in service of the Commonwealth which he felt had been betrayed by the English people and their reinstatement of Charles II as the king of England.
The book details Satan's escape from Hell and his temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden. At once heroic and even occasionally sympathetic the descriptions of Satan's exploits are marvelous examples of poetic genious. Milton also addresses the question of how Eve falls if she is perfect (as God created her) without prtraying her as vain or self obsessed as many artists have done (since these traits are those of a fallen human not a perfect one).
This book is a must, enjoyable for anyone with an interest in reading good challenging literature, and giving the reader an insight into the complicated issues that have troubled religious thinkers through the ages. On top of it all it is a cracking read.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A wonderful read, not because it was edited by my FAVOURITE english prof, but because it rocks. You're in for a treat. Too bad you don't get to have Prof. Leonard teach it to you in person. Please do read it, Milton is fantastic!!!
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