John Milton's Paradise Lost In Plain English: A Simple, Line By Line Paraphrase Of The Complicated Masterpiece
| AUTHOR | Milton, John; Lanzara, Joseph |
| PUBLISHER | New Arts Library (03/10/2009) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
The first and still the best! John Milton's overwhelming masterpiece, Paradise Lost - all 10,565 brain-busting lines of it, transformed into simple, everyday language! - the kind you and I speak and understand. Milton's original poem is on each left hand page, and the simplified, Plain English translation is across from it on the right. Corresponding numbered lines on both versions make for easy comparison. Still nothing else like it! Nothing plainer, simpler, faster, easier, more complete, more concise, or more irritating to your teacher!
The first and still the best! John Milton's overwhelming masterpiece, Paradise Lost - all 10,565 brain-busting lines of it, transformed into simple, everyday language! - the kind you and I speak and understand. Milton's original poem is on each left hand page, and the simplified, Plain English translation is across from it on the right. Corresponding numbered lines on both versions make for easy comparison. Still nothing else like it! Nothing plainer, simpler, faster, easier, more complete, more concise, or more irritating to your teacher!
Writing during a period of tremendous religious and political change, Milton s theology and politics were considered radical under King Charles I, found acceptance during the Commonwealth period, and were again out of fashion after the Restoration, when his literary reputation became a subject for debate due to his unrepentant republicanism. T.S. Eliot remarked that Milton s poetry was the hardest to reflect upon without one s own political and theological beliefs intruding.