John Milton Livres

The book features William Blake's exquisite watercolors that bring to life John Milton's celebrated shorter poems, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. This artistic collaboration highlights the interplay between visual art and literature, showcasing Blake's unique interpretation and enhancing the themes of joy and contemplation found in Milton's work. The illustrations serve as a revelation, merging literary and artistic excellence in a profound exploration of human experience.

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This epic is Milton's most famous work, employing the heterodox theology later expounded in De Doctrina Christiana.

Best known for his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost, Milton is also a master of subltle lyric harmony. He is one of the greatest writers of the 17th century, and of all time.

Focusing on John Milton's significant contributions to political thought, this volume features two pivotal texts: "The Tenure of Kings and the Magistrates," a radical defense of regicide, and "A Defence of the People of England," which justifies the Commonwealth's cause to Europe. This edition is notable for its fully annotated versions and a new translation of the latter work. An introduction explores the ideological complexities of Milton's time, complemented by a chronology of his life, a select bibliography, and biographies of key figures mentioned.

Exploring themes of poetic melancholy, the speaker in this reflective ode seeks to replace "vain deluding Joys" with "divinest Melancholy" to inspire future verses. The work serves as a companion to L'Allegro, contrasting mirth with a deeper introspection. The speaker idealizes melancholy as a pathway to prophetic insight, and the poem unfolds in couplets of iambic tetrameter, creating a rhythmic exploration of the profound emotions associated with contemplation and reflection in art.

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Milton's Paradise Lost 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 love. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years it has held generation upon generation of scholars, students and readers in rapt attention and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.

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Milton's 'Paradise Lost' is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan's attempts to mislead Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden, by eating from the tree of knowledge. In his sequel poem, 'Paradise Regained', Milton shows Satan trying to seduce Jesus in a similar way to Eve.