PARADISE LOST AND OTHER POEMS
by Milton, John
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Walter J. Black, 1943. Hardcover. Fine. 12 mo., hardcover, fine in gray tweed boards with red box on spine. 386pp. Published for the Classics Club. Introduction by Maurice Kelley. Milton takes the traditional epic and transforms it with the clarity of his moral vision and with the power of his language, turning it into triumphant blank verse--seldom used in his day except in drama--that is moving, exciting, and full of the grandeur of Milton's poetic vision. In the early parts of "Paradise Lost", he manages to convey sympathy with Satan's heroic energy.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84053
- Title
- PARADISE LOST AND OTHER POEMS
- Author
- Milton, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Walter J. Black
- Date Published
- 1943
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