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As a young student, John Milton fantasized about bringing the poetic elocution of Homer and Virgil to the English language. Milton realized this dream with his graceful, sonorous "Paradise Lost," now considered the most influential epic poem in English literature. A retelling of the biblical story of mankind' s fall from grace, Milton' s epic opens shortly after the dramatic expulsion of Satan and his army of angels from Heaven. What follows is a cosmic battle between good and evil that ranges across vast, splendid tracts of time and space, from the wild abyss of Chaos and the fiery lake of Hell to the Gate of Heaven and God' s newly created paradise, the Garden of Eden. Controversy still swirls around Milton' s magnificent and sympathetic characterization of Satan, a portrait so compelling that many critics have maintained that he is the true hero of the story.
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- Bible
- Biographie
- Biography
- CRITICA E. INTERPRETACION
- Criticism and interpretation
- Critique et interprétation
- Devil
- Early works to 1800
- English Christian poetry
- English Epic poetry
- English poetry
- Fall of man
- Fall of man in literature
- Fall of man.
- First editions
- German poetry
- Histoire et critique
- History and criticism
- History of Biblical events
- Illustrations
- In library
- Latin poetry
- POESIAS INGLESAS
- Poésie anglaise
- Poésie épique anglaise
- Poetry
- Portraits
- Protected DAISY
- Temptation
- Translations from English
- Translations into English
- Translations into German
- Translations into Hungarian
- Translations into Latin
- Translations into Russian
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