Author: Robert C. EvansPublisher: Salem Press
ISBN: 9781642650242
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Provides a collection of critical essays on John Milton's Paradise lost.
Paradise Lost
Author: Robert C. EvansPublisher: Salem Press
ISBN: 9781642650242
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Provides a collection of critical essays on John Milton's Paradise lost.
Paradise Lost, by John Milton, a Criticism on the Poem by Samuel Johnson
Author: John MiltonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781536860177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men."In his introduction to the Penguin edition of Paradise Lost, the Milton scholar John Leonard notes, "John Milton was nearly sixty when he published Paradise Lost in 1667. [The writer] John Aubrey (1626-97) tells us that the poem was begun in about 1658 and finished in about 1663. But parts were almost certainly written earlier, and its roots lie in Milton's earliest youth."Leonard speculates that the English Civil War interrupted Milton's earliest attempts to start his "epic [poem] that would encompass all space and time."Leonard also notes that Milton "did not at first plan to write a biblical epic."Since epics were typically written about heroic kings and queens (and with pagan gods), Milton originally envisioned his epic to be based on a legendary Saxon or British king like the legend of King Arthur.Having gone totally blind in 1652, Milton wrote Paradise Lost entirely through dictation with the help of amanuenses and friends. He also wrote the epic poem while he was often ill, suffering from gout, and despite the fact that he was suffering emotionally after the early death of his second wife, Katherine Woodcock, in 1658, and the death of their infant daughter (though Milton remarried soon after in 1663).......... John Milton (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse. Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644)-written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship-is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of free speech and freedom of the press........... Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history." He is also the subject of "the most famous single biographical work in the whole of literature," James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson....
Paradise Lost
Author: John MiltonParadise Lost
Author: John MiltonCriticism on Milton's Paradise Lost
Author: Joseph AddisonParadise Lost, Book 3
Author: John MiltonCriticism on Milton's Paradise Lost
Author: Joseph AddisonParadise Regained
Author: John MiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Paradise Lost
Author: Michael CavanaghPublisher:
ISBN: 0813232465
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"The author provides a book-by-book examination of Paradise Lost for the first-time reader, highlighting the important features of Milton's epic style"--
The Complete Poems and Major Prose
Author: John MiltonPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624665853
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1081
Book Description
First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume.