April 12, 2024
1892 JOHN MILTON VICTORIAN EDITION PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED ILLUSTRATED
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From 1892, this is a nice Victorian edition of The Poetical Works of John Milton, published in New York by Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, New York. Sized 8x5 inches, bound in leather patterned bright red cloth, gilt titles. With 618 pages. Featuring Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Comus, etc. With a frontispiece portrait. A previous owner has written some comments in ink on the margins. Not overly intrusive. The first edition of 1667 is not obtainable.Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608--1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered to be Milton's masterpiece, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time. The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
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