Beschrijving
Bringing together Milton’s two great biblical epics, this unabridged edition traces the drama of disobedience, loss, temptation, and redemption from the fall of Satan and humankind in Paradise Lost to Christ’s steadfast triumph in Paradise Regained. Written in majestic blank verse, the poems unite classical epic structure with Protestant theology, Renaissance humanism, and profound psychological insight. Gustave Doré’s original illustrations deepen the volume’s grandeur, rendering Milton’s cosmic landscapes and spiritual conflicts with visionary force. John Milton, a learned poet, polemicist, and public servant of seventeenth-century England, wrote out of an age marked by civil war, religious controversy, and questions of political liberty. Blind in later life, he dictated Paradise Lost after the collapse of the republican cause he had defended. His lifelong command of scripture, classical literature, and moral philosophy shaped his ambition to \
