| Description |
xvi, 143 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Landmarks of world literature |
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Landmarks of world literature.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Chronology -- The chronology of events in Paradise Lost -- Part I. Paradise Lost in Milton's Career and Age: 1. 'Long choosing, and beginning late' -- 2. Lycidas -- 3. Writing in the English Revolution and the Restoration -- 4. Milton's blindness -- 5. The Christian Doctrine and Milton's theological heresies -- Part II. Interpreting Paradise Lost: 6. 'Say first what cause': Paradise Lost and beginnings -- 7. 'To raise/That Name': Paradise Lost and epic ambition -- 8. The voice of the poet -- 9. Answerable styles -- 10. Satan: daring ambition and heroic ideology -- 11. Hell: geographical place and internal state -- 12. God, providence, and free will -- 13. Milton's Eden -- 14. Adam and Eve and human sexuality -- 15. The material cosmos of Paradise Lost -- 16. War in Heaven -- 17. Creation -- 18. The tragedy of the Fall -- 19. Postlapsarian history and the inner paradise -- Part III. The Literary Afterlife of Paradise Lost: 20. Revisions from the restoration to the romantics |
| Summary |
This book provides a new and stimulating introduction to Paradise Lost, arguably the greatest epic in the English language. David Loewenstein examines Milton's poem in its historical, theological and literary context, and highlights the poet's imaginative daring as he revises the epic tradition and brilliantly elaborates upon Genesis. A concluding chapter surveys the influence of this visionary poem as a source of creative invention for later writers, and there is a concise guide to further reading |
| Analysis |
English poetry |
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English poetry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. (pages 138-143) |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
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Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism.
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Fall of man in literature.
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| LC no. |
92035914 |
| ISBN |
0521393035 (hardback) |
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0521398991 (paperback) |
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