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| Paradise Lost (Oxford World's Classics) | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Milton, Philip Pullman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Category: Book
List Price: £16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 28560
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 019280619X
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.4
EAN: 9780192806192
ASIN: 019280619X
Publication Date: September 5, 2005
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The devil's in the detail...... October 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is fine gift edition of Milton's biblical soap opera. Pullman's introductions to each of the books of the poem are infectiously enthusiastic and he largely succeeds in persuading us to put aside our struggles with the technical difficulties of Milton's language - suggesting instead that we embrace its phonological drama. The sense does largely follow the sound.
That said, the marked lack of scholarly notes makes this a bad choice for a newbie. Yes, it's nice to read the poem without constantly flicking back and forth looking for glosses on Milton's archaicisms and allusions, but realistically, any student is going to have to fork out on notes to plumb the text's true depths.
The book itself is beautifully presented and chock-full of glorious illustrations (I'd have liked to have seen Gustav Dore's though...) - so it will make a great gift for any lit-head. Older children coming here through 'His Dark Materials' may get the literature bug through this initial encounter, though an illustrated edition of Blake's 'Songs of Innocence and Experience' might be a safer bet.
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