Paradise Lost

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Which are the main topics and philosophy in Milton´s Paradise Lost?

― Pilar Ibáñez, Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Basically, that it's hard out here to be a pimp.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Just read the Cliff's Notes:

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― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 23 March 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

i read the first four chapters of this a few weeks ago, it'd be cool to discuss it.

so far it's kind of reminding me of...a marvel comic!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 24 March 2006 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

That's about as far as I got in it, and I enjoyed it, but it got draggy around there and I put it down.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

I got about two books into it before putting it down. I do like Milton; I just felt that Paradise Lost was this massive club of excessively domineering language that kept trying to beat the bejesus out of me.

It was a strange, inexplicable feeling..

― mj (robert blake), Friday, 24 March 2006 07:47 (nineteen years ago)

i was fine with it up through all the satan and hell stuff, but once you hit heaven it gets seriously hard to plow through.

cs lewis apparently wrote a whole book arguing that satan ISN'T the hero and milton was really an unbothered orthodox christian. anyone read that?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 24 March 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

for some reason i always think "i should see if there's a better translation of it" when i think of this, despite, well, you know.

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 24 March 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I read Paradise Lost in a class on Milton. So we got through that and Paradise Regained. It's definitely worth making finishing. And it's really kind of amazing when you consider that he was blind at the time of composition and dictated the entire thing to his daughters.

― salty_dog, Friday, 24 March 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I never got around to this. I did read "On His Blindness" in a leatherbound World's Greatest Poetry volume my dad bought in the Sears bookstore for $1.99. Or was it Korvettes?

― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

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