Riverside Milton FROM THE PUBLISHER
Students and scholars will rejoice that the famed works of John Milton (1608-1974) now join those of Chaucer and Shakespeare in the definitive, one-volume Riverside series. Milton's early poetry is here and his important prose, but pride of place is given to his epics, PARADISE LOST and PARADISE REGAINED as well as his final masterpiece, the dramatic SAMSON AGONISTES.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
In the writings of Milton, the work of two tremendous intellectual and social movements came to a head. The Renaissance is responsible for the rich and complex texture of Milton's style, its wealth of ornament and decoration...On the other hand, the Reformation speaks with equal, if not greater, authority in Milton's earnest and individually-minded Christianity. These two contrasting aspects of MIlton's life and thought place him among the Christian humanists. His literary art places him, with Homer and Virgil, in the small circle of great epic writers. — Robert M. Adams
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