Paradise Lost, Hardcover

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Milton's magnificent poem narrating Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, now in a beautiful new clothbound edition In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the center 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 toward authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to ""justify the ways of God to men,"" or exposes the cruelty of Christianity. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1, 700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Despre autor

John Milton

poet și funcționar public englez (1608–1674)

John Milton a fost poet englez, superlativul englez liric alături de William Shakespeare, faimos pentru poemul epic în versuri albe Paradise Lost, care reprezintă una dintre pietrele de temelie ale literaturii engleze. De asemenea autorul a 24 sonete engleze de mare magnitudine, care îl pun alături sau dincolo de sonetele engleze ale lui William Shakespeare.