John Milton

In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the center 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 briefly in danger of execution, Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence...

Plongez dans l'épopée poétique intemporelle de "Le Paradis perdu" de John Milton, un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature anglaise. Ce poème épique vous transporte au cœur d'une lutte cosmique entre le bien et le mal, explorant les thèmes de la chute de l'homme, de la rédemption et de la quête de sens. Suivez le destin de Satan, chassé du paradis et déterminé à corrompre l'humanité, ainsi que celui d'Adam et Ève, les premiers hommes confrontés...

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John Milton is most famously remembered for his epic narrative "Paradise Lost" and its sequel "Paradise Regained". In addition to these classic works Milton wrote several shorter pieces. These shorter works are collected together in this volume and include the following: "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity;" "A Paraphrase on Psalm CXIV;" "Psalm CXXXVI;" "On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough;" "At a Vacation Exercise in the College, Part...

From the author of the esteemed epic poem, Paradise Lost, comes one history's most influential arguments against censorship. John Milton was known for his linguistic genius and political activity, often writing to support his views. During the height of the English Civil War, Milton published Areopagitica. Structured like an oral speech but delivered by pamphlets that Milton illegally printed and distributed, Areopagitica argues against censorship...

Casi diez años después de haber publicado su Areopagítica (1644), John Milton declaró cuál había sido su propósito al llevar tan atrevido discurso ante el Parlamento inglés: "Librar a la prensa de las restricciones con las que fuere lastrada, de manera que el poder de determinar lo que era verdad y lo que era mentira, lo que había de publicarse y lo que había de suprimirse, dejare de confiarse a unos cuantos individuos iletrados e ignorantes,...

"The Practical Bee-Keeper" is a complete and comprehensive guide to bee-keeping, containing chapters on everything from the natural history and society of beers, to setting up and managing a successful apiary. Although old, this profusely-illustrated guide contains information still relevant for the modern enthusiast with a practical interest in bee-keeping. Contents include: "Importance of the Bee to Man", "Its Three Sexes", "Its Sting", "Age of...

John Milton, the 17th century English poet author, polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England is of course known best for his famous epic poem "Paradise Lost" which retells the biblical story of "The Fall of Man" and how Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan and ultimately expelled from the Garden of Eden. "Paradise Lost" is included in this volume of "The Complete Poems of John Milton" along with its sequel "Paradise Regained" and...

Areopagitica' is a prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defenses of the principle of a right to freedom of speech and expression. Many of its expressed principles have formed the basis for modern justifications.

John Milton's 'dramatic poem' was published in 1671, three years before the poet's death. Written in the form of a Greek tragedy, with the Chorus commenting on the action, it follows the biblical story of the blind Samson as he wreaks his revenge on the Philistines who have imprisoned him.