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Reading Paradise Lost (Blackwell Reading Poetry)
Reading Paradise Lost - Blackwell Reading Poetry Author:David Hopkins 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 po... more »etic experience of reading Paradise Lost rather than its religious or political contextProvides a nuanced, unified vision of the poem from a celebrated authority on English poetry of the periodIncludes consideration of the poem's earlier champions and criticsPassionately advocates Paradise Lost's continuing artistic and philosophical relevance« less