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John Milton's Paradise Lost - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover)
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John Milton's Paradise Lost - A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Guides to Literature
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John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667) is a literary
landmark for writers, critics and students around the world. His
reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not
only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on
fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to
conscience and consciousness.
Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this
Sourcebook:
*Outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century
England which are so crucial to "Paradise Lost"
*Completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted
documents from the period
*Examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from
early reactions to recent criticism
*Reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along
with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or
significant terms used in Milton's work
*Provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and
critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials
can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the
text
Suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of
critical work on the poem.
With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a
somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource
for anyone new to "Paradise Lost,"
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