Paradise Lost and Other Poems OP

These three masterworks placed the great seventeenth-century English poet Milton beside Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, and Virgil in the pantheon of world literature. A monumental achievement, Paradise Lost , the epic poem about the magnificent Lucifer--whose failed rebellion against the tyranny of Heaven casts him into the darkness of Hell and leads to man's fall from grace. Samson Agonistes , the greatest English drama modeled on the Greek classics, depicts the blinded, once-mighty Samson regaining his strength as God's champion and delivering his people--while destroying himself and his captors. And Lycidas , the immortal elegy on lost hopes and the nature of fate.



Written in a grand style of superb power, these works display a majesty of language, a sublime wealth of detail, and the unmistakeable masterwork of a literary genius.



Is there anything Milton does not know?