Paradise Lost and Other Poems (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Book 54 of 64: Gothic Fantasy

Milton, John

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Synopsis

Presents three major works by the seventeenth-century English poet, including his epic poem Paradise Lost, which depicts the creation, fall, and redemption of humankind and the moral and spiritual dilemmas of God's judgment. Reprint.

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John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674.

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