Evans follows with his survey of "Editors' Introductions to Paradise Lost from 1950-2007." The survey is designed to give readers a comprehensive overview of “key insights from some of the best scholarship” on Milton’s poem by people who have often devoted a lifetime to studying it.Ĭontinuing this section, critical lens essay titled “Fall into Pain: Paradise Lost as a Narrative of Trauma,” by the noted English author Nicolas Tredell who suggests that Milton's epic is in many ways a "trauma narrative." The closing essay is "'Eden rais'd in the wast Wilderness': Post-Postlapsarian Landscapes in Paradise Regain'd," in which author Warren Tormey compares and contrasts Milton's writings with that of other texts of his time. Brett Hudson takes a historical approach in his essay on "The Early Modern Prison in Milton's Paradise Lost." Robert C. The volume’s next major section, devoted to critical contexts, looks at Paradise Lost from a number of deliberately diverse perspectives. Evans about the volume, and a biography of John Milton, also by Evans. The first opens with a sort of “flagship” essay by Dennis Danielson, one of the world’s most respected “Miltonists.” This first section also includes an introductory essay by Editor Robert C. Like all the volumes in the Critical Insights series, this one is divided into distinct sections.
Some critics consider it perhaps the greatest single poem in the English language. John Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the most famous and most widely respected poems ever written.
This volume looks at Milton's epic from many different critical and theoretical perspectives and offers students and researchers multiple ways of engaging with a writer whom many critics consider the equal of William Shakespeare. Paradise Lost is widely regarded as one of the most influential poems in the English language.
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