Reading Paradise Lost

Book Title:    Reading Paradise Lost

Author:          David Hopkins

Year :             2013

Language:     English

Pages:            106

ISBN-10:      1118471008
ISBN-13:      9781118471005

Info:

Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton’s great epic Paradise Lost, a work of literature which has compelled and fascinated readers down the ages and which offers enduring insight into the human condition 

+ A welcome aesthetic focus on the poetic experience of reading Paradise Lost rather than its religious or political context

+ Provides a nuanced, unified vision of the poem from a celebrated authority on English poetry of the period

+ Includes consideration of the poem's earlier champions and critics

+ Passionately advocates Paradise Lost's continuing artistic and philosophical relevance