A Preface to Paradise Lost
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- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2022
Summary
C. S. Lewis’s illuminating reflections on Milton’s Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thought as well as Lewis’s own.
In Preface to Paradise Lost, the Christian apologist and revered scholar and professor of literature closely examines the style, content, structure, and themes of Milton’s masterpiece, a retelling of the biblical story of the Fall of Humankind, Satan’s temptation, and the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780063222137 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0063222132 |
| Author: | C.S. Lewis |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
Still the most lucid, useful, entertaining introduction to Milton’s poem anyone has contrived to write. Traditional literary criticism at its best.–Lance E. Wilcox, Elmhurst College
“An essential work in understanding both the literary approach of C.S. Lewis and the theological assumptions of Paradise Lost. Unparalleled in its conciseness.” - I.S. Maclean, James Madison University
“Still the most lucid, useful, entertaining introduction to Milton’s poem anyone has contrived to write. Traditional literary criticism at its best.” - Lance E. Wilcox, Elmhurst College
“His emphasis on tradition leads Mr. Lewis to a preliminary consideration of epic poetry in general, which is both fresh and sound. But his most valiant service is to protect us against the many students of Milton who have not been able to see the woods for the trees.” - Edward Wagenknecht, The New York Times
“A ‘must’ item for all readers of Milton and for all readers of literature and of life … His emphasis on tradition leads Mr. Lewis to a preliminary consideration of epic poetry in general, which is both fresh and sound. But his most valiant service is to protect us against the many students of Milton who have not been able to see the woods for the trees.” - The New York Times
“A ‘must’ item for all readers of Milton and for all readers of literature and of life … Lewis’s most valiant service is to protect us against the many students of Milton who have not been able to see the woods for the trees.” - The New York Times
“The book is one of very great moment indeed, and is, in fact, much more than an essay on Milton.” - The Tablet
“Lewis, more than any other critic now writing, adds wit, learning and enthusiasm to that ability to discuss rather than destroy, which is the prerequisite of the critic’s true function.” - The Dublin Review
“An indictment of our critical premises and methods of reading. Indeed it is a tract for our times.” - Time and Tide
C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954 when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.
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