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Reading Paradise Lost
eBook - Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
ISBN/EAN: 9781118474440
Umbreit-Nr.: 4390926
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 112 S., 0.16 MB
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 21.11.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Reading<i>Paradise Lost</i><p><i>This lucid and entirely jargon-free guide to</i>Paradise Lost<i> will help any reader of the poem to find their feet, and to understand what makes it the best poem in the English language. Hopkins has one, and only one, resemblance to Miltons Satan, which is that he can make intricate seem straight</i>.<BR>Colin Burrow, Oxford University<p><i>This is the best introduction to</i>Paradise Lost<i> there is, suitable for the intelligent sixth-former or undergraduate, or the enquiring general reader outside the academy or indeed anyone who cares about poetry. It is also a joy to read, indeed a real page-turner and of how many academic books can one say that?</i><BR>Charles Martindale, Bristol University<p>Concise enough to be assimilated in a single session, this short volume maps the wonders of Miltons poetic landscape. The book offers an exploration of some of the main narrative and poetic elements of the epic poem qualities which have compelled and fascinated readers for more than three centuries. The author, a celebrated authority on English poetry of the period, engages with (and attempts to counter) some of the critical arguments that impede readers enjoyment of the poem. This volume emphasizes the aesthetic experience of reading<i>Paradise</i><i>Lost</i> and brings out the pleasure to be derived from one of the great literary achievements of humanity.
- Kurztext
- Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton s great epic Paradise Lost, a work of literature which has compelled and fascinated readers down the ages and which offers enduring insight into the human condition A welcome aesthetic focus on the poetic experience of reading Paradise Lost rather than its religious or political context Provides a nuanced, unified vision of the poem from a celebrated authority on English poetry of the period Includes consideration of the poem's earlier champions and critics Passionately advocates Paradise Lost's continuing artistic and philosophical relevance
- Autorenportrait
- <p><b>David Hopkins</b> is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK. A specialist on English poetry and literary criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he has written two books on John Dryden <i>John Dryden</i> (1986) and<i>Writers and their Work: John Dryden</i> (2004). His latest work,<i>Conversing with Antiquity: English Poets and the Classics, from Shakespeare to Pope</i> (2010), reflects his interest in the enduring influence on English poetry of the literature and culture of classical antiquity. Professor Hopkins has also edited numerous volumes, including (with Paul Hammond) an annotated edition of Drydens complete poems.</p>