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Blurb: “The major poetical works of a giant of world literature: PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAINED, SAMSON AGONISTES, LYCIDAS, COMUS, L'ALLEGRO and IL PENSEROSO, the SONNETS, the early poems, and many others”
AN IMMORTAL РОЕТ
John Milton takes his place alongside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Virgil as one of the unmistakable geniuses of world literature. His power and majesty of language, his deep religious faith, his rich poetic imagination all combine in some of the most impassioned and lyrical poetry in our heritage.
A Puritan by religious conviction, but a Classicist by education, Milton was able to fuse together in his poetry the sensuous, pagan love of life and the orthodox, moralistic beliefs of Christianity. His mature works abound in the lush, urbane imagery of the Renaissance and are some of the crowning glories of English literature.
This anthology represents all Milton's major works and contains every original poem he wrote in English. The only works excluded are those written in a foreign language and his PARAPHRASES OF THE PSALMS.
Edited and with Introductory Notes by John D. Jump.”