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Paradise Lost By John Milton (Hardback, 2014)
Milton's celebrated epic poem now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designIn Paradise Lost Milton produced a poem of epic scale conjuring up a vast awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time And yet in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to
men' or exposes the cruelty of ChristianityJohn Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process He risked his life by publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660) His great poems were published after this political defeat John Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario
men' or exposes the cruelty of ChristianityJohn Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process He risked his life by publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660) His great poems were published after this political defeat John Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario
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