Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781944503611

"'Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat....' Opening Lines of Paradise Lost. While Homer, Virgil, and Dante chose to tell the stories of mere men who conquered kingdoms, sacked cities, and passed through terrors, Milton chose as the subject for his epic poem one of the greatest events in the history of the world-the Fall. Milton portrays the devil as a classical hero who infects the first man and woman with pride and self-regard. Milton takes all the best of classical poetry and uses it to tell a story about simple obedience, petty self-love, and unfathomable forgiveness"--

A Preface to Paradise Lost

A Preface to Paradise Lost
Author: C.S. Lewis
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1960
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Author C. S. Lewis examines John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and the epic genre, discussing epic technique, subject matter, and style and the elements of Milton's story.

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.

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature
Author: Calum Carmichael
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1108422950

Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.