John Milton's Paradise Lost - 9780415303248

Taylor & Francis

John Milton's Paradise LostA Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook\nAuthor(s): Margaret Kean\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415303248, 978-0415303248\nSynopsis\nJohn Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost [tel] is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.\n\nDesigned for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:\n\n* outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost\n* completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period\n* examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism\n* reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive comm.