Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.4
EAN: 9780140424393
ISBN: 0140424393
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: April 29, 2003
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Sales Rank: 2916
Studio: Penguin Classics

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard.




Rating: - In Breathless Wonder
How a blind man could produce such a stunning work is beyond me. Paradise Lost chronicles the fall of Adam and Eve from Eden and the fall of Lucifer from Heaven. It is told in flashback and in current time, by angels and by the narrator. Milton is a breathtaking poet, even on par with the great one Shakespeare and at times surpassing him. The images of heaven and eden and of the war in heaven are astonishing. Then there is what lies beneath: The nature of free will, pride, blind love, and many ... Read More

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Rating: - A cosmic battle
I used the Norton critical edition edited by Scott Elledge

We will discover in these pages a profound rendering of the cosmic battle between good and evil, man's fall through disobedience to God, and Satan's perversion on mankind.

Each line serves a purpose, so in order to inhale this sublime poem to its fullest it will be necessary to slow down. Immensely valuable to understanding this difficult poem is the editor's explanatory summery going into each of the twelve books ... Read More

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Rating: - Rise and Fall
First off, let me say that we're not talking here about the famous Qi gong instructor named John Milton. We're talking about the famous 17th-century English poet who wrote _Paradise Lost_ and _Paradise Regained_, two of the most wonderfully overlong Christian poems in the history of Western literature.

Your English teacher will tell you that _Paradise Lost_ "narrates the story of Adam and Eve's disobedience, explains how and why it happened, and places the story within the larger context ... Read More

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Rating: - The Epic Poem of the English Language
John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is one of the all-time classics of English literature. The epic poem begins with Satan just having been expelled from Heaven. Adam and Eve are tempted in the Garden of Eden, and fall. Before the two are expelled from Eden, Adam has revealed to him some of the major events of the Old and New Testaments, culminating in the Second Coming of Christ. The epic has enthralled readers for well over three centuries.

One thing that must be borne in mind when reading ... Read More

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Rating: - Possibly the Best Edition Out There
I have read "Paradise Lost" four times, and took no less than three semesters on it at university. This was the edition we used to work. Modernised spelling, coherent punctuation (plus variations of it in the notes), good introduction, and enormous work in the notes; this edition has all you need for a good reading of the epic poem.

As to the poem itself, some people are hard on it for all the wrong reasons. Remember that it is a 17th century poem, that English was not exactly similar as it ... Read More

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