Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost

Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost
Author: William Poole
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2017-10-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674971078

William Poole recounts Milton's life as England’s self-elected national poet and explains how the greatest poem of the English language came to be written. How did a blind man compose this staggeringly complex, intensely visual work? Poole explores how Milton’s life and preoccupations inform the poem itself—its structure, content, and meaning.

Paradise Regained

Paradise Regained
Author: John Milton
Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1467775975

A companion to the epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton's Paradise Regained describes the temptation of Christ. After Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden, Satan and the fallen angels stay on earth to lead people astray. But when God sends Jesus, the promised savior, to earth, Satan prepares himself for battle. As an adult, Jesus goes into the wilderness to gain strength and courage. He fasts for 40 days and nights, after which Satan tempts him with food, power, and riches. But Jesus refuses all these things, and Satan is defeated by the glory of God. This is an unabridged version of Milton's classic work, which was first published in England in 1671.

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134844174

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.