A Preface to Paradise Lost: Ballard Matthews Lecture 1941 - Hardcover

Lewis C. S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8126904569 ISBN 13: 9788126904563

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing,India, 2006

Synopsis

1. Epic Poetry 2. Is Criticism Possible? 3. Primary Epic 4. The Technique of Primary Epic 5. The Subject of Primary Epic 6. Virgil and the Subject of Secondary Epic 7. The Style of Secondary Epic 8. Defence of This Style 9. The Doctrine of the Unchanging Human Heart 10. Milton and St. Augustine 11. Hierarchy 12. The Theology of Paradise Lost 13. Satan 14. Satan's Followers 15. The Mistake about Milton's Angels 16. Adam and Eve 17. Unfallen Sexuality 18. The Fall 19. Conclusion Appendix: Notes on Certain Passages Index

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Review:

Truly Awesome!!! This is one book that you have to have if you are a student of English Literature or just a fan of John Milton's Paradise Lost. C.S.Lewis gives a critical appreciation that breaks the conventional view that critical works are always boring. Rivaled only by Helen Gardner's critical work, this is a must-buy!!! --Sayan Mukherjee Mar 5, 2012

About the Author:

Clive Staples Lewis was born on 29 November 1898 in Belfast and had his early education at Malvern College and then at University College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself as an Oxford Scholar and received Chancellor s Essay Prize in 1921. Lewis passed B.A. in 1922 with First Class Honours in Literae Humaniores and English. After having a short stint in the Somerset Light Infantry, he served as Lecturer, University College, Oxford in 1924, then as Fellow in Magdalen College, Oxford from 1925 to 1954, and Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University from 1954 to 63. Lewis received many awards in his life including Gollancz Prize for Literature and Library Association Carnegie Medal. He became Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1948 and Fellow of the British Academy in 1955. Lewis died on 22 November 1963. A critic, novelist, poet and essayist, Lewis was a prolific writer, but in every field he left the mark of his original insight and profound scholarship. His outstanding critical writings include The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936), An Experiment in Criticism (1961) and Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966).

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing,India
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 8126904569
• ISBN 13: 9788126904563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 152
• Editor: Mohit K. Ray