By John Milton, John Leonard
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, ethical and religious origins of man's existence
In Paradise misplaced Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up an unlimited, awe-inspiring cosmos and varying throughout large tracts of house and time, populated by way of a memorable gallery of grotesques. And but, in placing a charismatic devil and bare, blameless Adam and Eve on the centre of this tale, he additionally created an intensely human tragedy at the Fall of guy. Written whilst Milton was once in his fifties - blind, bitterly disillusioned by way of the recovery and at risk of execution - Paradise Lost's obvious ambivalence in the direction of authority has resulted in excessive debate approximately no matter if it manages to 'justify the methods of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
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