A Guidebook to Paradise Lost
Published on 3. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-230-53665-4 (ISBN)
Description
Paradise Lost has excited and provoked poets and critics for over 300 years. This introduction provides an accessible route
into Milton's influential epic poem, guiding students through each of the twelve books by a combination of close textual analysis
and summary of key themes and techniques.
Without assuming prior knowledge, Nutt helps navigate the book's biblical and classical background and its relationship to seventeenth-century history. Focusing on developing the reading skills needed to approach this important and complex poem
independently, A Guide to Paradise Lost is essential reading for all students of Milton.
into Milton's influential epic poem, guiding students through each of the twelve books by a combination of close textual analysis
and summary of key themes and techniques.
Without assuming prior knowledge, Nutt helps navigate the book's biblical and classical background and its relationship to seventeenth-century history. Focusing on developing the reading skills needed to approach this important and complex poem
independently, A Guide to Paradise Lost is essential reading for all students of Milton.
Reviews / Votes
"For a self-proclaimed 'guidebook' Nutt's volume eschews the gimmicks that lend so many introductory works an air of accessibility at the cost of intellectual depth: he is assuredly not writing Paradise Lost for Dummies. There are no bullet points, cartoons, or inset boxes featuring trivia about the Barebones Parliament or Arminian soteriology. Instead we have a substantial and tightly-packed volume, though Nutt's prose style is clear and accessible. Nutt excels at looking at the poem over his audience's shoulder, so to speak. He recognizes that the big philosophical, political, and theological questions Milton explores are inseparable from the nuances of language, metaphor, and even syntax; readers are made to see that comprehending the latter will give a much better chance of comprehending the former." - Milton QuarterlyMore details
Edition
2011
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-53665-4 (9780230536654)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-36343-4
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Joe Nutt
A Guidebook to Paradise Lost
E-Book
09/2011
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€38.99
Available for download
Person
JOE NUTT is currently Principal Consultant at CfBT Education Trust and previously taught English at the City of London School. He is the author of An Introduction to Shakespeare's Late Plays and John Donne: The Poems.
Content
Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Milton and his England: The Historical and Biographical Context of Paradise Lost.- Religious Mythology.- Epic Voyage.- Redemption and Free Will.- Paradise Perturbed.- Wilful Transgression.- War in Heaven.- Genesis.- Divine Love and Love Divine.- Wiles and Wilfulness.- Crime and Punishment.- Loss of Paradise.- Banishment and Hope.- Further Activities and Reading.