John Milton

Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design....

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Explores the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence. In this title, the author produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques.

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From almost the moment of its publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. This new edition is derived from the editors modernized Oxford Authors text, with a new introduction that discusses the poem's complexity and critical history, and on-page notes to gloss language and allusions.

Sir Ian McKellen stars as Milton in this dramatised retelling of John Milton's epic poem about the fall of Man"devilishly good...

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

One of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.

Albie, the farmer's dog, wakes up one morning to find that his companion Nellie has disappeared. Where has she gone? They are normally always together by the fire in the kitchen, or playing in the garden and the surrounding fields. As he sets off to find her, Albie takes in all the sights and smells of the countryside and a range of familiar and strange places as he follows the mystery....

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This volume presents a complete text of all Milton's verse. Coleridge linked Milton and Shakespeare as the greatest of English poets, and even in our time Milton continues to exert a powerful influence, both on the writing of poetry and on critical debate.

Considered the most influential epic poem in English literature, Paradise Lost is a retelling of the biblical story of mankind's fall from grace.

Contains the brief epic "Paradise Regained," the tragic drama "Samson Agonistes," and Milton's complete shorter poems, along with commentary covering the works' historical contexts and political and philosophical implications.

In this epic work, John Milton seeks ?to justify the ways of God to men? through the familiar Christian myth of the fall from grace. The poem is imbued with Milton's profoundly individual view of man's place in the universe and his intellectual and spiritual quest for redemption in the face of despair. This unique clothbound edition includes its own slipcase and all fifty of the magnificent...

The epic poem Paradise Lost tells the Biblical Story of Adam and Eve, their temptation by Satan, and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Through thousands of lines of poetry and over twelve books, it explores God's relationship to mankind and human morality. Satan is presented as a fascinating tragic hero. This collector's edition features William Blake's beautiful color illustrations and...

Thirteen year old Amber Robinson's life is full of changes. Her parents are sending her to a private school away from her friends, and high school looms before her. But little does she know that her biggest change awaits in a mysterious city hidden from the world for a thousand years. ...

General description of this work- In purely poetic value, "Paradise Regained" is little inferior to its predecessor. There may be nothing in the poem that can quite touch the first two books of "Paradise Lost" for magnificence; but there are several things that may fairly be set beside almost anything in the last ten. The splendid "stand at bay" of the discovered tempter -- "'Tis true I am that...

The Heroic Milton collects John Milton's three epic poems, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and the poem-play Samson Agonistes. Also included are the illustrations for Paradise Lost by Gustave Dor.

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Milton's "Paradise Lost" is considered to be one of the most classic epic poems ever written. It is a retelling of the biblical story of the Genesis of man, of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and of how Eve when tempted by Satan disobeyed God and ate from the tree of knowledge. Written in 1667 by the English Poet John Milton, "Paradise Lost" is a poetic and intriguing interpretation of ancient...