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Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition | 
| Author: John Milton
Creator: Dennis Danielson
Publisher: Regent College Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 30670
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 1573834262
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9781573834261
ASIN: 1573834262
Publication Date: November 1, 2008
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Product Description
Paradise Lost has long been hailed as one of the most compelling stories of all time. Its cosmic canvas--heaven, hell, chaos, and the Garden of Eden--has enthralled thousands of readers for more than three centuries. For others, however, it has remained an unopened treasure because of the perceived difficulty of its archaic vocabulary and poetic structure. Dennis Danielson's new edition of Milton's great epic offers a vibrant, authoritative rendition in modern prose alongside the original text of Milton's story of heroism, pathos, beauty, and grace, making accessible for the first time a work that continues to be acclaimed as "possibly the most profound meditation on good and evil ever written" (Toronto Globe & Mail, 2000).
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Stanley Fish Reviews This Book December 30, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am going to buy this book. Stanley Fish, a university literature professor who writes the "Think Again" blog for the New York Times, reviewed this book on 2008 November 30. The title of his blog column is "'Paradise Lost' in Prose." Just go to the New York Times website and search for the column (I can't include the URL here).
Fish fairly and lucidly explains the reasons for writing a translation of "Paradise Lost" in English, and he favors having the original poem side-by-side with the prose translation. He explains that the translator, Dennis Danielson, has to repeatedly make choices between ambiguous and multiple meanings of words, which unavoidably loses much of the poem's power and the poet's intent, but having the original text in parallel view mitigates this problem. Fish concludes that the prose translation is just the thing for readers who don't have the time or energy to read "Paradise Lost" with full appreciation, which by the way is quite a task.
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