{"product_id":"paradise-lost-by-john-milton-poetry-classics-9781598181661","title":"Paradise Lost by John Milton, Poetry, Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMilton takes us immediately into the action of the tale, gliding over what we all know from the Bible, developing the story's background as he goes.\u003c\/strong\u003e We learn how Satan came to be in Hell after the war in heaven, see warfare and the ambitions of the angels -- come to know God's wisdom, power, and His wrath. Milton gives us characters who personify Death, Chaos, Mammon, and Sin, and they interact with more traditional figures -- Adam, Eve, Satan, and, yes, God. If you have not read Paradise Lost, it's likely that you're already familiar with a lot of it -- it's a tale that's become a part of our culture. To understand it truly, you need to read this book. The writer and critic Samuel Johnson wrote that Paradise Lost shows off \"[Milton's] peculiar power to astonish\" and that \"[Milton] seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilton, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"John Milton (1608 - 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse. Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644)-written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship-is among history's most influential and impassioned defenses of free speech and freedom of the press.\"","brand":"Aegypan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515946471698,"sku":"9781598181661","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1168dbc-2c6a-43a4-8eb0-6fe98c64f216.jpg?v=1731016132","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paradise-lost-by-john-milton-poetry-classics-9781598181661","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}