Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Signet Classics) - Softcover

Professor John Milton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451531647 ISBN 13: 9780451531643

Publisher: Signet Classics, 2011

Synopsis

John Milton's classic epic poems in one pocket-sized volume

These controversial biblical poems explore the story of Adam and Eve, Satan, and the fall of man. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice – and what it truly means to be human.

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About the Author

John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674.Christopher Ricks is professor of humanities at Boston University and most recently author of Dylan's Visions of Sin. Susanne Woods is a Provost nad Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and Chair of the professional Northeast Milton Seminar. Her doctorate is from Columbia University and she has taught at the University of Hawaii, Franklin & Marshall College, and at Brown University, where she maintains an affiliation. Her books include Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden (1984), and Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet (1999), and she has published numerous articles on Milton and other English renaissance poets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451531647
• ISBN 13: 9780451531643
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 369
• Editor: Professor Of The Humanities And Co-Director Of The Editorial Institute Christopher Ricks