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Paradise Lost (Oxford World's Classics) Pocket Book – 17 April 2008
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- ISBN-109780199535743
- ISBN-13978-0199535743
- EditionReissue
- PublisherOxford
- Publication date17 April 2008
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions19.51 x 13.21 x 1.73 cm
- Print length368 pages
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- ASIN : 0199535744
- Publisher : Oxford; Reissue edition (17 April 2008)
- Language : English
- Pocket Book : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780199535743
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199535743
- Item Weight : 260 g
- Dimensions : 19.51 x 13.21 x 1.73 cm
- Country of Origin : India
- Best Sellers Rank: #237,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,879 in Literary Theory, History & Criticism
- #4,529 in Poetry (Books)
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David Hawkes was born in Cardiff, Wales and educated at Stanwell Comprehensive School. He has a B.A. from Oxford University and a MA, M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Criterion, Quillette and many other popular and scholarly journals. He is a Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University, and has held visiting appointments in Turkey, Japan, India and China, as well as a long-term fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in Phoenix and Istanbul.
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- Reading this book for beginners is like hell. You can not understand the writing. It's not an Normal English. You have to good words to understand them. This book is in notes. Like 1. 2. Etc... It's written in a poem form.

- Reading this book for beginners is like hell. You can not understand the writing. It's not an Normal English. You have to good words to understand them. This book is in notes. Like 1. 2. Etc... It's written in a poem form.




This book contains the whole poem. I would recommend buying other print than this. And there are plenty of explanations on the internet which perhaps are better than what this book includes.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 3 May 2021
This book contains the whole poem. I would recommend buying other print than this. And there are plenty of explanations on the internet which perhaps are better than what this book includes.






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I read it through lightly, as I am not versed in the classics, but was looking for inspiration from the poem for my own project. I got that in bucketloads and have since started my poem, having written over 1050 lines so far. It will take time but I will get there. Paradise Lost is a real journey, difficult at times, but so worth it. Essential reading.

I need not have had any concerns at all! I am a collector of vintage and antique books but can't afford any Dore original copies, but I couldn't be more delighted with this one. Full illustration plates throughout, lovely paper, lovely embossed lettering on the front board.
I never thought I was going to be this delighted. Love it!

Pages are made from paper so thin it’s possible to see the print on the page overleaf coming through.
This volume came with a sticky label (why?) which removed some of the pattern when it came off - see photo. I’m keeping this for myself but if it was a gift I would not have been happy.
No idea why this volume had a sticky label when another bokok in the clothbound series I ordered came with a cardboard label.....(see other pic)


Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 2 June 2020
Pages are made from paper so thin it’s possible to see the print on the page overleaf coming through.
This volume came with a sticky label (why?) which removed some of the pattern when it came off - see photo. I’m keeping this for myself but if it was a gift I would not have been happy.
No idea why this volume had a sticky label when another bokok in the clothbound series I ordered came with a cardboard label.....(see other pic)



Another hero is Adam who also becomes thoughtful and brave as he becomes older and develops. Eve is tricky as she is painted as the traditional, beautiful wife who gets into terrible trouble when she uses her initiative (and eats the apple). The portrait of Eve is shocking, in fact. No wonder women were repressed by men when they read this or the Old Testament. She was blamed for everything and was untrustworthy and, under pressure, slippery. (At one stage she blames Adam for having listened to her entreaties to let her go off alone and, as it worked out, to be tempted by the serpent.)
Anyway, this is an astounding tale with wonderful characterisation, put together by someone with great imagination and great rationality. It is hard to read, however. Milton was a great linguist and his Latin style influences the construction of his sentences.
Just to quote a little on Satan. After "the Arch-fiend lay/Chain'd on the burning lake", having left Heaven, he has to work out what to do and how to organise Hell as far as he can. He says that "The mind is its own place and in itself/Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n". Later he tries to work out what doing evil means in practice, and so aims to create a system in which "Fate shall yield/ To fickle Chance, and CHAOS judge the strife". That is an interesting definition of Hell, in my view, and one that we do import to earth (in civil wars, extreme poverty and even in normal life).
This is ultimately a very optimistic work in many ways. For instance, the Angel Michael tells that fallen Adam that if he can feel love for others he "shalt possess a Paradise within thee" and that this could make him "happier farr" than just being in Paradise. Also, and this is easy to miss in the blandishments of the Testaments New and Old, man was created as a beautiful creature in the image of God. Adam and Eve seem "Lords of all" in Paradise.