John Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth, defending the English revolution both in English and Latin - and sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his lifeby publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat.
John Leonard is a Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, Paradise Lost has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in Penguin Classics.
In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time, populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked, innocent Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man.
Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
John Leonard's revised edition of Paradise Lost contains full notes, which elucidates Milton's biblical, classical and historical allusions and discuss his vivid, highly original use of language and blank verse.
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誠然嚴謹如彌爾頓,在宗教革命的風頭浪尖上,以文字為利器,刻畫齣一部氣勢磅礴的“失樂園”。在彌漫著boring氣息的英美文學史課堂上。這股氣勢卻也喚起我的閱讀欲望,進入彌爾頓的世界。人類億年間在地球上一同發展,中國的古文明古文化是國人驕傲之本。原來地球的另一端也有...
評分彌爾頓是個清教徒,然而在《失樂園》中常常露齣伊壁鳩魯派的小尾巴,這是一件十分有趣的事。 撒旦劃齣地獄之門麵對茫茫的混沌,有下麵一段話: “這個狂亂的深淵是自然的胎盤, 恐怕也是墳墓, 既不是海,也不是地,不是風,不是火所構成, 而是這些元素的紛然雜陳, 産生瞭原...
評分 評分 評分Yale Open Course ENGL220 Milton: notes on lecture1 R教授給他第一堂課起名為“Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton”,如何理解此處的Power?在R教授的課堂中,power大概有三個意思:力量、權力和魅力,其中以“力量”為主要意思。R教授從三個層麵展開論述瞭彌爾頓之力的...
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哎呀之前居然沒標過彌老師,失敬失敬……其實應該五星的,不過彌老師屌癌還是要扣一分。
評分路西法不肯屈服於上帝,不斷反抗,最終化身為罪惡的蛇。人類犯下最初的原罪之後,便慌忙嚮上帝卑躬屈膝,請求寬恕。如果是我,我寜願做那寜死不屈的魔,萬劫不復也在所不惜。越看越覺得自己真是個反人類份子。
評分I miss Chaucer...That's how much I dislike Milton.
評分A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. //Awake, arise, or be forever fall’n (Book 1, line 330) // Nor grateful Evening mild; nor silent Night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light without thee is sweet. (Book IV, 652)
評分Is me so late the glory of that glory?
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