Reading Paradise Lost
Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton's great epic Paradise Lost, a work of literature which has compelled and fascinated readers down the ages and which offers enduring insight into the human condition A welcome aesthetic focus on the poetic experience of reading Paradise Lost rather than its religious or political contextProvides a nuanced, unified vision of the poem from a celebrated …
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Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton's great epic Paradise Lost, a work of literature which has compelled and fascinated readers down the ages and which offers enduring insight into the human condition A welcome aesthetic focus on the poetic experience of reading Paradise Lost rather than its religious or political contextProvides a nuanced, unified vision of the poem from a celebrated authority on English poetry of the periodIncludes cons.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Wiley
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (108 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781118474426, 1118474422, 1299158609, 9781299158603, 9781118471005, 1118471008
- oclc:ocn827207917
- LC Classification:ML410.M679
- Dewey Decimal:821.4
Table of Contents
Reading Paradise Lost; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Paradise Lost: Poem or "Problem"?; Two Propositions; The Laws of Poetry; Two French Critics and an English Poet on Paradise Lost; Knowing God; A Poem Divided Against Itself?; Poetry and Belief; Endnotes; 2 God, Satan, and Adam; Surveying the Whole; Satan; God; Free Will; Endnotes; 3 Eden; Changing Views of Milton's Eden; Milton's Evocations of Paradise; Adam and Eve in Eden; Eve and the Relations between the Sexes; Adam's Dialogue with Raphael; Endnotes; 4 The Fall; Eve as Narcissus?; The Conversation before Eve's Departure.
Eve as GoddessEve's Temptation; Adam's Fall; After the Fall; Endnotes; Further Reading; Editions; Biography and Reference; Criticism; Index to lines and passages from Paradise Lost; Index to main text and notes.
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