Featured on PDR in the essay The Sound and the Story: Exploring the World of Paradise Lost
John Milton’s *Paradise Lost* has been many things to many people — a Christian epic, a comment on the English Civil War, the epitome of poetic ambiguity — but it is first of all a pleasure to read. Drawing on sources as varied as Wordsworth, Hitchcock, and Conan Doyle, author Philip Pullman considers the sonic beauty and expert storytelling of Milton’s masterpiece and the influence it has had on his own work.
Also appearing in the essay…
Title page to a set of etchings for Paradise Lost published in 1896 by the Scottish printmaker and painter William Strang. Here Strang has depicted Milton — said to be a ”master of music” — playing the bass-viol, while his daughters sing from a song-sheet.
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1896
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Paradise Lost
