"Inside "Paradise Lost"" opens up new readings and ways of
reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its
narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the
deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint's comprehensive
study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords
give structure and coherence both to individual books of "Paradise
Lost" and to the overarching relationship among its books and
episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new
interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects of
"Paradise Lost"--its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible,
its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice.
Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and
the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create
than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by
appearing to ratify Adam's decision to fall and die with his wife.
The Milton of this "Paradise Lost" is a Christian humanist who
believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this
indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of
Milton's masterpiece, "Paradise Lost" reveals itself in new formal
configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.
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