Reading Paradise Lost

<p>Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton’s great epic <i>Paradise Lost</i>, a work of literature which has compelled and fascinated readers down the ages and which offers enduring insight into the human condition </p> <ul> <li>A welcome aesthetic focus on the poetic experience of reading <i>Paradise Lost</i> rather than its religious or political context</li> <li>Provides a nuanced, unified vision of the poem from a celebrated authority on English poetry of the period</li> <li>Includes consideration of the poem’s earlier champions and critics</li> <li>Passionately advocates <i>Paradise Lost'</i>s continuing artistic and philosophical relevance</li> </ul>