Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained

by Milton, John; Ricks, Christopher; Woods, Susanne

• ISBN13: 9780451527929
• ISBN10: 0451527925
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

Here in one volume are the complete texts of two of the greatest - and most controversial - epic poems in English literature, each a profound exploration of the moral problems of God's justice. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama, fortifying not merely our sense of what is beautiful but what is human as well. It leaves readers with no choice but to commit themselves totally with their minds and with their hearts.

Author Biography

John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674.
Christopher Ricks is professor of humanities at Boston University and most recently author of Dylan’s Visions of Sin.
Susanne Woods is a Provost nad Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and Chair of the professional Northeast Milton Seminar. Her doctorate is from Columbia University and she has taught at the University of Hawaii, Franklin & Marshall College, and at Brown University, where she maintains an affiliation. Her books include Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden (1984), and Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet (1999), and she has published numerous articles on Milton and other English renaissance poets.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vi
A General Note on the Text	p. xx
A Note on This Edition	p. xxi
Chronology	p. xxiii
Paradise Lost
The Verse	p. 3
Book I	p. 4
Book II	p. 28
Book III	p. 57
Book IV	p. 79
Book V	p. 109
Book VI	p. 134
Book VII	p. 159
Book VIII	p. 177
Book IX	p. 195
Book X	p. 228
Book XI	p. 258
Book XII	p. 282
Paradise Regained
Book I	p. 303
Book II	p. 316
Book III	p. 329
Book IV	p. 341
Selected Bibliography	p. 358
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