John Milton is a far superior poet to Shakespeare. Does /lit/ agree?
>>7804304
No. All the crap with God and Jesus is boring. I wanted more Satan.
Does anyone have a download link to a Paradise Lost copy with commentary? Thanks in advance.
>>7804354
http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/ParadiseLostIn10Bks1667.pdf
This is a copy of the book alone. Commentaries should be pretty easy to find online, but I don't know any particularly good ones.
>>7804312
There's way more Satan than God or Jesus in the poem.
>>7804304
i prefer him... but i don't much enjoy how goofy most of Shakespeare is so i'm biased
>>7804304
No. He's good, but Shakespeare is the superior poet. Milton owes him for everything good in his own stuff.
>>7804354
This online print is very good
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_1/text.shtml
Has old spelling and notes.
>>7804304
Is Paradise RegainĀ“d worth reading?
>>7804745
It's not as good as Paradise Lost. Worth a read if you're either Christian or really into Milton. It has the same theological ideals as Paradise Lost, but this poem deals primarily with the temptation of Christ.
>Paradise Lost
Friend I think you have a typo. It's Paradise Loft.
>>7805487
>Paradise Loft
Friend I think you have a typo. It's Paradife Loft.
"...Him the Almighty Power
Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
With hideous ruine and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night"
The GOAT fan fic