John Milton's 'Paradise Lost': A Reading Guide
- ISBN-10
- 0748646094
- ISBN-13
- 9780748646098
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-18
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Author
- Noam Reisner
Description
Noam Reisner leads readers through the complexities of Milton's celebrated and challenging narrative poem as well as introducing them to the key critical views. The guide combines an introduction to the poem's main thematic and stylistic concerns together with discussion of important selected passages (substantial extracts from the text are included) and provides readers with a basic set of critical tools with which to interpret the text.
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