Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic

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"A serious reading of Milton's Epic--basic enough to help novice readers and original enough in places to interest seasoned readers."
--Seventeenth-Century News


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In Paradise Lost, his poetic retelling of the story of Adam and Eve, John Milton sought to create a Christian parallel to the classical works of Homer and Virgil. His achievement remains the undisputed masterpiece of the epic for in English. Francis Blessington's Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic clarifies the complexities of the poem and highlights its relevance to our own time as well as Milton's.


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