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.
诚然严谨如弥尔顿,在宗教革命的风头浪尖上,以文字为利器,刻画出一部气势磅礴的“失乐园”。在弥漫着boring气息的英美文学史课堂上。这股气势却也唤起我的阅读欲望,进入弥尔顿的世界。人类亿年间在地球上一同发展,中国的古文明古文化是国人骄傲之本。原来地球的另一端也有...
評分《失乐园》是弥尔顿对《圣经•创世纪》1-3章的文学解读和再创作,借以他自身高超的文学才华,结合了圣经中的《以西结书》、《以赛亚书》、《启示录》展开了一些合理的想象和发挥,重述了一个伊甸园的故事。《失乐园》的文学价值是无需赘言的,他的头衔是号称英国文学...
評分 評分弥尔顿的长篇史诗《失乐园》,以《圣经•旧约•创世记》第二、三章关于人类始祖亚当、夏娃在撒旦引诱下偷食禁果犯下原罪,被上帝逐出伊甸园的故事为蓝本,成功地将诗人——作为一个清教徒,所相信的人类重返上帝的乐园的回归之路极为完整、生动地展现在读者面前。这条路发...
Inspiring.
评分紀念豆瓣退迴bbs時代。
评分What is the difference between God and devil? What is the difference between man and angel? What is free will, if anything, predicted by God? What is fall, if anything, begetting us? For me paradise lost is more than an epic poem, but a myth left by the greatest English poet ever.
评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。
评分like satan and eve most
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