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  1. Paradise Lost

    by John Milton

    The Biblical fall of man is explored at length in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” Originally published in 1667, this tale of Satan’s expulsion from Heaven and his subsequent meddling with Adam and Eve is considered one of the greatest literary works of all time. Milton wrestles with a number of... (learn more about this book)

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    Paradise Lost (A Norton Critical Edition)

    by John Milton

    This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is... (learn more about this book)

  3. Paradise Lost / Paradise Regained (collective work)

    by John Milton

    Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed; he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God’s beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as the vehicles of his vengeance. In this... (learn more about this book)

  4. The Complete Poems

    by John Milton

    In the course of his forty-year career John Milton evolved from a prodigy to a blind prophet, from a philosophical aesthete to a Puritan rebel, and from a Latinist poet who proclaimed the triumph of reason to an epic poet obsessed with the intractability of sin. A master of almost every verse... (learn more about this book)

  5. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

    by John Milton

    John Milton is, next to William Shakespeare, the most influential English poet, a writer whose work spans an incredible breadth of forms and subject matter. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton celebrates this author’s genius in a thoughtfully assembled book that provides... (learn more about this book)

  6. Areopagitica

    by John Milton

    From Wikipedia:

    Areopagitica: A speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England is a 1644 prose polemical tract by English author John Milton against censorship. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical... (learn more about this book)

  7. The Riverside Milton

    by John Milton

    The first one-volume anthology of John Milton's complete poetry and selected prose to be published in over 30 years, The Riverside Milton reflects the highest quality and most current scholarship. As editor of The Milton Quarterly for 30 years, Roy Flannagan is uniquely qualified to survey... (learn more about this book)

  8. The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)

    by John Milton, Stephen Orgel

    Previously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton's poetry and prose includes all the English and Italian verse and a generous selection of his major prose works. Modernized spelling, extensive notes, and a helpful introduction make the text... (learn more about this book)

  9. Poems

    by John Milton

    The first complete annotated edition of Milton's poetry available in a one-volume paperback. The text is established from original sources, with collations of all known manuscripts, chronology and verbal variants recorded. Works in Latin, Greek and Italian are included with new literal... (learn more about this book)

  10. Samson Agonistes

    by John Milton

    The work deals with the final phase of Samson's life and recounts the story as told in the Old Testament Book of Judges. Himself blind when he wrote Samson Agonistes, Milton depicts Samson, the once mighty warrior, as blinded and a prisoner of the Philistines. Samson conquers self-pity and... (learn more about this book)

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