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The Portable Milton
by
John Milton
The Portable Milton is an authoritative grand tour through the imagination of this prodigal genius. In the course of his forty-year career, John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to one obsessed with the intractability of sin. Throughout these transformati...more
Paperback, 704 pages
Published
August 26th 1976
by Penguin Books
(first published 1955)
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I'd read many "shorter" pieces by Milton - Samson Agonistes, Lycidas, etc. - but never ventured into Paradise Lost and i have to say, those other pieces really only very remotely give you an idea of the coolness of Paradise Lost. It's a fascinating piece of work - the geographies Milton creates, the characters he brings to life (yeah, Satan's the most interesting, and yeah some of the others seem a bit doltish), the language, all of it. really remarkable.
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I debated adding Milton to the list because this book is not in any way an easy read but for some reason, I have a girl-chubby for Paradise Lost and anyone that's willing to take this on, should. It deals with many complex religious themes such as fate and the oh-so-important free will. Even more shocking, Satan is portrayed in a sympathetic light with Satan being as charismatic as modern politicians with such rah-rah phrases such as ""Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven"...more
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John Milton was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is celebrated as well for his eloquent treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. Long considered the supreme English poet, Milton experienced a dip in popularity after attacks by T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis in the mid 20th century; but with multip...more
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