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Title: 'A PREFACE TO ''PARADISE LOST'' (OXFORD PAPERBACKS)'
Publisher: Oxford Univeristy Press
Publication Date: 1960
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0192810030
ISBN 13: 9780192810038
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Weight: 0.42 pounds

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Why, in the seventeenth century, did Milton choose to write an Epic? What is an Epic? In what sense is Paradise Lost like the Homeric poems or the English Beowulf? In what sense did Milton develop the Virgilian Epic? Was it a matter of technique only or did it embrace the style itself and even the subject matter? Professor C. S. Lewis's criticism has always been outstanding for first asking the right questions and then answering them with a lucidity and lightness of touch which, far from wearying his readers with learning, stimulates them to go back to the poetry itself. With absolute naturalness this defence of Epic as a literary form resolves itself into a plea that ritual, and splendour, and joy itself, have a right to exist.

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