Milton's Paradise Lost - Hardcover

Milton, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841932515 ISBN 13: 9781841932514

Publisher: Arcturus Pub, 2008

Synopsis

Milton follows many classical examples by personifying characters such as Death, Chaos, Mammon, and Sin. These characters interact with the more traditional Christian characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, various angels, and God. He takes as his basis the basic biblical text of the creation and fall of humanity (thus, 'Paradise Lost'), which has taken such hold in the English-speaking world that many images have attained in the popular mind an almost biblical truth to them (in much the same way that popular images of Hell owe much to Dante's Inferno). The text of Genesis was very much in vogue in the mid-1600s (much as it is today) and Paradise Lost attained an almost instant acclaim.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This is the first fully-annotated, old-spelling edition of Paradise Lost to be published in this century. It surveys in its introduction and incorporates in its notes the large amount of criticism published between 1965 and the present--not to mention the criticism that began with Dryden, Addison, Samuel Johnson, and William Blake--and it reflects critical perspectives from New Criticism to Deconstruction, from Philology to New Historicism and Feminism. On the page, the book combines the look and feel of original editions with the convenience of wide margins and thorough annotation.

About the Author:

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcturus Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1841932515
• ISBN 13: 9781841932514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Illustrator: Dore Gustave