Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

by Joad Raymond

Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background.

Milton's angels are real beings, and the stories he tells about them...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199657718
• ISBN13: 9780199657711
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"