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portada Paradise Lost
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
280
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.3x13.3x1.5 cm
Weight
0.29 kg.
ISBN13
9781532822803

Paradise Lost

John Milton (Author) · Createspace · Paperback

Paradise Lost - John Milton

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Synopsis "Paradise Lost"

Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan and the other following Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other rebel angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, Tartarus. In Pandaemonium, Satan employs his rhetorical skill to organise his followers; he is aided by Mammon and Beelzebub. Belial and Moloch are also present. At the end of the debate, Satan volunteers to poison the newly created Earth and God's new and most favoured creation, Mankind. He braves the dangers of the Abyss alone in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas. After an arduous traversal of the Chaos outside Hell, he enters God's new material World, and later the Garden of Eden. At several points in the poem, an Angelic War over Heaven is recounted from different perspectives. Satan's rebellion follows the epic convention of large-scale warfare. The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's forces take place over three days. At the final battle, the Son of God single-handedly defeats the entire legion of angelic rebels and banishes them from Heaven. Following this purge, God creates the World, culminating in his creation of Adam and Eve. While God gave Adam and Eve total freedom and power to rule over all creation, he gave them one explicit command: not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil on penalty of death.
John Milton
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John Milton (Londres, 1608-1674) fue un eminente poeta, ensayista y funcionario público inglés, considerado una de las figuras más influyentes de la literatura occidental. Ferviente defensor de la causa puritana, apoyó la Mancomunidad de Inglaterra bajo Oliver Cromwell, sirviendo como secretario de lenguas extranjeras. Su obra cumbre, la epopeya El paraíso perdido (1667), fue compuesta en verso blanco tras quedar ciego, narrando la caída de Adán y Eva.

Nacido en una familia culta, Milton recibió una sólida formación clásica que reflejó en sus primeras obras como L'Allegro y Il Penseroso. Políticamente activo durante la guerra civil inglesa, escribió tratados radicales, destacando Areopagitica (1644) en defensa de la libertad de prensa. Sus escritos políticos influyeron en el pensamiento republicano.

Además de su obra maestra, escribió El paraíso recobrado y Sansón Agonistas. Su vida estuvo marcada por la agitación política, tres matrimonios y una ceguera progresiva que no detuvo su labor creativa. Falleció en 1674, consolidado como un autor de inmensa maestría literaria, a menudo comparado con Shakespeare.
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