Paradise Lost : Annotated Edition (Great Poets series)

Name: Paradise Lost : Annotated Edition (Great Poets series)
Brand: John Milton
SKU: 9781847498038
Price: 6.59 GBP
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by John Milton

Title:

Author:

John Milton

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

384 pages

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing plc

ISBN-13:

9781847498038

EAN:

9781847498038

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

460

Dimensions (mm):

128 x 197 x 28

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£6.59

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Description

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve - the temptation and fall - is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty.A staggering and audacious undertaking - seeking, in Milton's words, to "justify the ways of God to men" - Paradise Lost has been revered since its initial publication, inspiring writers from Mary Shelley to William Wordsworth, and is widely considered to be the greatest poem ever written in the English language.