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Paradise Lost and Other Poems
Paradise Lost and Other Poems
Author: John Milton
Paradise Lost revivifies Adam's fall from the Garden of Eden. Samson Agonistes follows blind Samson, whose titanic strength destroyed both himself and the Philistines to bring his people deliverance. Lycidas is a pastoral lamentation for a Cambridge student who drowned, and an immortal elegy of all lost hopes. — Introduction: the life ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780451628268
ISBN-10: 0451628268
Publication Date: 11/1/1961
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Most interesting to me is the character of Satan. Christ and God here are two-dimensional sketches, whereas Milton gives Satan complex motivation, much more engaging than run-of-the-mill comic-book iniquity. Enjoy!


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