“The greatest epic poem in the English language . . . A work of
unparalleled imaginative genius that shapes English literature even
now.” —Benjamin Ramm, BBC.com Written in blank verse by the
seventeenth-century English poet John Milton, this “epic of over
10,000 lines is a dramatic, imaginative version of Satan’s rebellion
against God and of Adam and Eve’s eviction from Eden. Set at the
beginnings of human history, it shifts us across an expansive
universe: Heaven at the top—Earth dangling from it—and Hell at the
bottom, a dark gloomy Chaos in between. It tells the story of divine
creation, human ambition and hopeless rebellion, but is perhaps most
famous for its presentation of Satan, an intensely deep character”
(New Statesman). “Milton’s cosmos is a visionary unfolding and
enfolding of the biblical map with others from his vast mental
bookstore. Paradise Lost itself is a densely intertextual amalgam of
fictional worlds, made newly brilliant by the imagination behind the
poet’s now sightless eyes, embodied in blank verse at its most
vigorously muscled. . . . That verse flows, twists, ripples and
thunders like a team of miraculously tireless and synchronised horses.
It’s the perfect body-mind work-out.” —The Guardian
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ISBN
9781504062107
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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