A retelling of the biblical story of mankind's fall from grace. Milton's epic opens shortly after the dramatic expulsion of Satan and his army of angels from Heaven. What follows is a cosmic battle between good and evil that ranges across vast, splendid tracts of time and space, from the wild abyss of Chaos and the fiery lake of Hell to the Gate of Heaven and God's newly created paradise, the Garden of Eden. Controversy still swirls around Milton's...

Introduction by Gordon CampbellJohn Milton wrote poetry of such sublime beauty that he managed, through its universal influence, to transform the character of the English language.From his astonishing epic Paradise Lost, with its magnificent blank verse and mesmerizing characters, to the tragic brilliance of Samson Agonistes, Milton engaged the political and religious issues of his troubled times with subtlety and sophistication. His moving elegy...

John Milton's overwhelming masterpiece, Paradise Lost -- all 10,565 brain-busting lines of it, transformed into simple, everyday language, the kind you and I speak and understand. Milton's original poem is on each left hand page, and the simple, Plain English translation is across from it on the right. Corresponding numbered lines on both versions make for easy comparison.

The complete epic poem chronicling Man's fall from Grace, and Satan's defiant role leading the other angels in rebellion against God.

A collection of sonnets, occasional poems, and selections from longer works by seventeenth-century English poet John Milton.

Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler. Written at a time of personal and political...