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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
Joe, Paradise Lost is stupendously good. If you find an edition without footnotes and just read it like a novel, you'll love it.
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Absolutely. I'm just finishing up writing a chapter on Milton (albeit his 1645
Poems), so I'm likely biased, but if you just let yourself get immersed in the words,
Paradise Lost is such a beautiful
read...in addition to its well-earned laurels as one of the greatest works of English literature. There are few literary tropes I think about more than how Satan's beguiling, compelling, and wondrous language in the first two books breaks down into disjointed utterances like "Mee miserable!" in Book 4.
P.S. Jerome, don't think your cheeky nod to Sonnet 129 went unnoticed...