John Milton: Paradise lost (1982, Signet Classic)
396 pages
English language
Published Aug. 25, 1982 by Signet Classic.
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western …
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.
eve deserved better. Satan should have won.
I was really enjoying this. Right up until the rampant transphobia in this book. I’m just disappointed.
I will finish the series and review it accordingly, but to any fellow queer people who enjoy these cheap, fun kindle novellas; skip this series.
Milton >>> Dante
Holy shyat. This is a strange piece of poetry. It took me some time to read it. In the middle time I've met Hart Crane, and never had I seen more intricate, mistically orchestrated imagery as in his poetry. Crane surpasses Whitman, Pound, Yeats and Frost in numerous ways, and the weighting divinity of his imagery is one of them. But Milton, well, Milton surpasses Crane. And this is probably because Crane could never so propitiously investigated the spiritual aspect of image's unity in poetry. It seems to me Paradise Lost is at the same time that unity and the commentary about it. Altough there is a phenomenological difference between Milton and Crane, wich is a pragmatic also; in Milton the visual/symbolic particles are distributed along its phrase, independent of syntax, wich generally converges to the end of the final descriptive verse, and in this moment the reader "acknowlodge" the …
Holy shyat. This is a strange piece of poetry. It took me some time to read it. In the middle time I've met Hart Crane, and never had I seen more intricate, mistically orchestrated imagery as in his poetry. Crane surpasses Whitman, Pound, Yeats and Frost in numerous ways, and the weighting divinity of his imagery is one of them. But Milton, well, Milton surpasses Crane. And this is probably because Crane could never so propitiously investigated the spiritual aspect of image's unity in poetry. It seems to me Paradise Lost is at the same time that unity and the commentary about it. Altough there is a phenomenological difference between Milton and Crane, wich is a pragmatic also; in Milton the visual/symbolic particles are distributed along its phrase, independent of syntax, wich generally converges to the end of the final descriptive verse, and in this moment the reader "acknowlodge" the scenery; in Crane, while reaching the end of the descriptive verse, the syntax of particles converges towards de centre of the verse as the unitary force. While Crane confounds you, Milton reaches meaning with enchantment.
Loved the poem and it was fun teaching. The allegory and allusions were quite fantastic and forced me to journey through Greek, Roman, and Biblical mythologies.
A religious political poem about Adam and Eve and Satan and Christianity and the fall of man. Very very interesting. But to be honest... I lacked time to appreciate it to the fullest. So I will definitely reread this again at some point in future when there's no deadline to be met. more
Best Satan ever.
