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by anonymous on November 4th, 2006

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Would you recommend the book Paradise Lost, and where can I get a copy?

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  • by Nuttsky on May 31st, 2007

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    I have to tell you: It's rough going. I have read it, start to finish. Inferno is interesting because the character of the fallen Lucifer is magnificant; the other parts are pretty dreary. Milton had a vast and far-reaching intellect, but he went places most of us don't really need to go.

    Read some of his shorter works. The sonnet "on his blindness" is amazing.

    When I consider that my light is spent
    Ere half my days in this dark world and wide
    And that one talent which is death to hide
    Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
    To serve therewith my Maker, and present
    My true account, lest He, returning, chide,
    "Doth God exact day labor, light denied,"
    I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
    That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need
    Either Man's work or His own gifts. Who best
    Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state
    Is kingly. Thousands at His bidding speed
    And post o'er land and ocean without rest.
    They also serve who only stand and wait.

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  • by TheAnswerer on November 4th, 2006

    TheAnswerer

    Yes, it's pretty good. Here's a review:

    Long regarded as one of the most powerful and influential poems in the English language, Paradise Lost still inspires intense debate about whether it manages "to justify the ways of God to men" or exposes the cruelty of Christianity or the Christian God. John Leonard's illuminating introduction is fully alive to such controversies; it also contains full notes on language and many allusions to other works.

    Paradise Lost conjures up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and puts a naked Adam and Eve at the very center of its story.


    GET IT HERE:
    http://www.amazon.com/Paradise-Penguin-Classics-John-Milton/dp/0140424261

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  • by Anonymous on November 5th, 2006

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    I would, simply because reading it helps you to understand so many other great works of art that little bit better.
    The 19th Century Romantics (Byron, Shelley and all those other dead poets you wish you could have had sex with) were generally obsessed with it and identified themselves with the Devil who's seemingly portrayed by Milton as rather a sympathetic character who champions free will and self-creation and the pursuit of wisdom against the dictatorial portrayal of the God figure.
    Its also parodied in parts by Alexander Pope in "The Rape of The Lock" (which is quite difficult to penetrate if you haven't read Paradise Lost)
    Definetly worth reading- should be fairly easy to get hold of Penguin classics do a version I believe- so try a large Waterstones or Borders shop.

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  • by Kristafr on January 27th, 2009

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    I would strongley recomend it. You can get it at amazon.com or at a bookstore (You may need to preorder though).

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  • by Believer on May 31st, 2007

    Believer

    On google books!

    http://books.google.com/books?id=CgQyjor6Uw8C&pg=PA1&dq=paradise+lost

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