Milton and the Idea of the Fall (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521847636)

John Milton produced the most magnificent poetic account ever written of the biblical Fall of man in Paradise Lost (1667). William Poole presents a comprehensive analysis of the origin, evolution, and contemporary debate on the Fall, and the way seventeenth-century authors, particularly Milton, represented it. Poole first examines the range and depth of early modern thought on the subject, then explains and evaluates the basis of the idea and the intellectual and theological controversies it inspired from early Christian times to Milton's own century.

Author: William Poole
ISBN-10: 052184763X
ISBN-13: 9780521847636
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2005
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.28w x 0.70d