Book mail
This fabulous edition of John Milton's epic poem came in the mail a few days ago.
The illustrations by Gustave Dore are spot on.
When I purchased this huge tome, I didn't realize the actual size of the book. A pocket book it's not... 🙄😆
But I'm glad I got it, all the same.
I probably won't start this baby for a few weeks until I finish up some of the multitude of books I've started.
#bookmail #poetry #epicpoems
Wait, what?!! John Milton visited Galileo in Florence in 1638!? And this is referenced in Paradise Lost! I can't believe I'm only just finding out! 🤯🤦🏻♀️
https://www.theflorentine.net/2017/12/04/john-milton-florence-italy/
Another #bucketlist item ticked off for #scarathlon 🥰 this is me doing some grad school reading in a cute aesthetic cafe today. I had a pot of peppermint tea and finished paradise lost for my class on medieval and renaissance women that meets on Monday nights for my masters degree
#skeletoncrew
I truly love charity shops!
I found very interesting books and I can't wait to read them all! 🤩❤️
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.“ Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost.
I write about Satanic literature, culture, history and more in my new book coming out with Simon & Schuster... about the history and culture of Satanism 🙂
It's called The Little Book of Satanism, and drops 10/2022. #author #book #books #satanic #luciengreaves #lucifer
What incredible imagery. And what a thrill to read the lines that serve as the epigraph to Northern Lights.Clearly Milton was using the advances in astronomy when he thought of this?God creating multiple worlds from the Chaos of space-beautiful.
I'm reading Joe Moshenka's sublime biography of Milton,and decided to make an attempt at Paradise Lost. I did not know that these really famous lines are said by Satan!
#OnThisDay in 1667 John Milton sold the copyright for Paradise Lost for £10. By that time the once wealthy Milton had fallen into poverty. A supporter of Cromwell, he was to be imprisoned in 1660 but was saved by powerful friends. Stripped of property and prestige, and having lost his sight years earlier, Milton began dictating his epic in 1663 to his family. Despite inauspicious beginnings, it was hailed as a masterpiece. #HistoryGetsLIT
