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The epic of Paradise lost: twelve essays

The epic of Paradise lost: twelve essays

Woodhull, Marianna

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Literary CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353708559
ISBN13: 9789353708559
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Paradise Lost is not a monument; it is a living argument. Marianna Woodhull meets Milton on his own ground and makes the encounter exhilarating. Read Milton with new eyes. In twelve tightly focused pieces of classic literature commentary, Woodhull offers a Paradise Lost interpretation that respects the poem's grandeur while testing its ideas. Woodhull writes with the confidence of a reader, attentive to Milton's diction and argument, yet alive to the poem's drama. Casual readers find bearings; specialists find provocations. These literary criticism essays move from voice and structure to the miltonic epic themes that still unsettle readers: freedom and obedience, authority and rebellion, the cost of knowledge, and the pull of the sublime. Her attention to theology in epic poetry is clear-eyed rather than pious, showing how doctrine, imagination, and moral psychology interlock in John Milton Paradise Lost. The result is a scholarly essay collection that serves both as pleasurable reading and as an academic research reference, especially useful for English literature students approaching epic poetry analysis for the first time or returning with sharper questions. Set against the ferment of seventeenth century English poetry and Restoration era literature, these essays remind us why Milton's epic helped define the possibilities of English verse and political thought. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure for readers, researchers, and classic-literature collectors who want Milton not merely admired, but understood.

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