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List Price: 15.65
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Product Details
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0.50 |
| Author(s): |
John Milton, Scott Elledge |
| Vendor: |
WW NORTON |
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| Published: |
December, 1992 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| ISBN: |
0393962938 |
| Store Code: |
2854 |
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Genre: Works by individual poets: 16th to 18th centuries; O.T; Fall of man in literature; English Poetry; Poetry; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Genesis; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Milton, John; Paradise lost; Bible.; O.T.; Bible; Fall of man; History of Biblical events;
Average Review: 5 stars
Review: !!!VERVE!!! : what joy to read galaxian epics, large in their characters, profound in their language, jumbo-gigantic in their theme! for this work concerns nothing more than the salvation of mankind, the source of all our toxica, the origins of reality's thrash of contradiction, decapitation of sense, the justice of God's infinite bewilderment and a host of other themes, some limpid, some latent. yet the true irony of this story, although milton eventually loses interest in him after his hallow triumph is greeted in inferno with the hiss of snakes, is that the author's sympathies, obsessions and fascination lies most in the character of satan! for did not milton jail-suffer at the hands of the restoration of the house of stuart? the blind english word-smith thus explores in depth this cosmic character of rebellion! for he himself most likely also from time to time longed to attack authority, shirk government decrees and restore to power the creed that he thought would best help mankind rose-flourish and ivory-prosper! here we witness satan's frustration, his nails of soul, his menace of catastrophe! here we read of satan's inappeasable torrent of rats as he witnesses adam in the garden, content, at ease, pax surrounding him and satan thus languishes, yearning for the former splendo-times he passed in celestium. and when adam does finally eat of the apple and is thus exiled from eden's rapture - what hiròshimum! what blight! for he laments his fall from grace in a torrent of mental cacophony and quickly sets about to blame eve for his slither among adders! but the work's most rubylicious feature is its language! how rarely do we encounter whole stories written in iambic pentameter verse! and milton embellishes his cosmic tale with all sorts of unexpected syntax, rioting images and flaxen parallels! author of Lorelei Pursued and Wrestles with God
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