{"product_id":"2026200010273-secondhand-paradise-lost-paradise-regained-samson-agonistes","title":"Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew works in the English language have shaped the literary and theological imagination as profoundly as the collected verse of John Milton, and this volume brings together three of his most monumental achievements in a single essential edition. Paradise Lost chronicles the cosmic drama of Satan's rebellion and the Fall of Man with unmatched grandeur, recasting the Book of Genesis into a sublime epic of ambition, loss, and redemption. Paradise Regained presents Christ's temptation in the wilderness as a quiet but decisive battle of wills, while Samson Agonistes — a dramatic poem modelled on Greek tragedy — details the blind hero's final, devastating act of defiance and sacrifice.\n\nThis edition is further distinguished by a new introduction from Harold Bloom, one of the twentieth century's most formidable literary critics, who illuminates Milton's vast epic cycle on the workings of divine justice and human freedom. Milton's verse, written in majestic blank verse with classical rigour and Protestant conviction, has influenced every major poet from Blake and Shelley to Keats and beyond. Together, these three works argue for a vision of humanity that is fallen yet striving, condemned yet capable of grace — a question Milton leaves reverberating long after the final line.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130666950875,"sku":"2026200010273-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/83d7fed5-16b0-405c-8b28-c8d054c033da.png?v=1786588281","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010273-secondhand-paradise-lost-paradise-regained-samson-agonistes","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}