Paradise Lost (Royal Collector's Edition)

Resumen del libro

Paradise Lost concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man.
The epic poem follows two narrative arcs, one about Satan and the other following Adam and Eve.
It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell.
The narrative follows the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
After losing the total freedom and power to rule over all creation, Archangel Michael gives Adam a glimpse at Mankinds potential redemption from original sin.Paradise Lost is an epic poem by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.
Miltons 17th-century contemporaries by and large criticised his ideas and considered him as a radical, mostly because of his views on politics and religion.
Milton also revolted against the idea of a monarch ruling by divine right, viewing the practice as idolatrous.

Biografía del autor

John Milton (Londres, 1608 " 1674) está considerado uno de los mejores poetas en lengua inglesa. Además de poeta, fue un gran ensayista y propagandista político. Durante los años de la Commonwealth, ejerció de ministro de lenguas extranjeras, aunque cesó su actividad con la restauración de la monarquía Estuardo en 1660. Las circunstancias trágicas de su vida " un matrimonio infeliz, la muerte prematura de su segunda mujer y su ceguera en 1652- se hacen patentes en el tono desesperanzado de sus obras. El poema épico El Paraíso perdido (1667), sobre la caída del hombre en el pecado, es su obra maestra.