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Le Paradis perdu [Paradise Lost]

Le Paradis perdu [Paradise Lost]

Seth, Catriona
Robertson, Ritchie
de Parny, Evariste-Désiré

Paperback

Series: Mhra Critical Texts, Book 20

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0947623906
ISBN13: 9780947623906
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: Jun 30 2009
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: French

Evariste-Désiré de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century for his lyric poems, especially the Poésies Erotiques (1778-81), and the prose-poems in Chansons Madécasses (1787). He also wrote much humorous verse, including the anti-religious La Guerre des Dieux (1799) and Le Paradis perdu (1805). The latter is a parody of Milton's Paradise Lost in four relatively short cantos. It gives a central place to the War in Heaven, casting Satan as a revolutionary. It is highly entertaining in itself, and also an important example of parody as critical response to an original text.

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