Paradise Lost (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

Milton, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141394633 ISBN 13: 9780141394633

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2014

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Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Paradise Lost Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man., Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.John Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth, defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his life by publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660)., His great poems were published after this political defeat. John Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

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John Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth, defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his lifeby publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat. John Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Reseña del editor:

'Paradise Lost' is Milton's most famous work, employing the heterodox theology later expounded in 'De Doctrina Christiana'. This edition contains modernised spelling, capitalisation and punctuation with notes on the words invented by Milton.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0141394633
• ISBN 13: 9780141394633
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512