Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, written by the 17th-century poet John Milton as he became blind at the end of his life, is a retelling of the Biblical story of the Fall of Man. While based on the Christian tale, the poem incorporates many topics, and spends most of its verses detailing the journey of Satan and his war on the angels. The depiction of Adam and Eve draws an elaborate panorama of their trials. This classic of Western literature is wide-reaching and enormously influential, and should not be absent from the modern reader's bookshelf.

Paradise Lost, an epic poem in blank verse, written by the 17th-century poet John Milton as he became blind at the end of his life, is a retelling of the Biblical story of the Fall of Man. While based on the Christian tale, the poem incorporates many topics, and spends most of its verses detailing the journey of Satan and his war on the angels. The depiction of Adam and Eve draws an elaborate panorama of their trials. This classic of Western literature is wide-reaching and enormously influential, and should not be absent from the modern reader's bookshelf.

Collected in one omnibus edition here are the five most important poetic works on Heaven and Hell ever written. In Paradise Lost Milton tells the story of the fall of man, which encompasses a battle that rages across Heaven between God and Satan. Here are passion and innocence, victory and defeat, hope and despair. This is without a doubt the greatest epic poem ever written in the English language. Paradise Regained is often thought of as the companion to Milton's Epic Paradise Lost. Here Milton tells the full story of Christ's forty days' temptation in the desert with Satan. The detail and...

This book contains John Miltons poetical works, with line numbers and footnotes. This includes Paradise lost, Paradise Regaind and Sampson Agonistes as well as forty-nine other works.

Most famous of these is Paradise Lost which is the Epic Poem by Milton, considered to be one of the greatest literary works in the English language. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, containing over ten thousand lines of verse. The poem brings to life the story in Genesis about the Fall of Man and subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton states that his purpose in writing the poem is...

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon

The legendary author of Paradise Lost and other poems was also a superb and provocative prose writer. Culled from Modern Library's definitive The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this indispensable collection, authoritatively annotated and updated for this new volume, now includes selections from Milton's Commonplace Book and the complete text of The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates in addition to Milton's letters, pamphlets, political tracts, and essays. Milton tackles...

Milton's Paradise Lost (Books I through XII) is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding...

Originally published in 1896, this book presents the text of the ninth and tenth books of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which humanity succumb to satanic temptation and are ejected from the Garden of Eden. The poem is accompanied by a biography of Milton, a history of the poem, a discussion of the cosmology of Paradise Lost and other scholarly appendices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Milton and the history of Paradise Lost.

Originally published in 1892 as part of the Pitt Press Series, this book presents the text of the fifth and sixth books of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which Raphael tells Adam and Eve of the war between God and Satan. The poem is accompanied by a biography of Milton, a history of the poem, a discussion of the cosmology of Paradise Lost and other scholarly appendices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Milton and the history of Paradise Lost.

Originally published in 1952, as the fifth edition of an 1893 original, this book presents the text of the first and second books of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which the fallen angels plan another attack on God after their exile to Hell. The poem is accompanied by a biography of Milton, a history of the poem, a discussion of the cosmology of Paradise Lost and other scholarly appendices. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Milton and the history of Paradise Lost.