Paradise Lost and Selected Poetry and Prose

New York: Rinehart & Company, (1954).

Price: $20.00

Softcover. Third printing. Edited with an introduction by Northop Frye. 601pp. Printed wrappers. Pages tanned, many with pen underlining and notations, owner name, covers with creasing and general wear, good only. Rinehart Editions 35.

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Item #193880 Paradise Lost and Selected Poetry and Prose. John MILTON.

John Milton
birth name: John Milton
born: 12/9/1608
died: 11/8/1674

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One of the greatest poets of the English language, best konwn for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), in which his "grand style" is used with superb power; its characterization of Satan is one of supreme achievements of world literature. Milton was also a noted historian, scholar, pamphleteer, and civil servant for the Parliamentarians and the Purian Commonwealth. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore