Preface to Paradise Lost - Couverture souple

Lewis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195003454 ISBN 13 : 9780195003451

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1961

Synopsis

A Preface to Paradise Lost provides an interpretation of Milton's purpose in writing the epic.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Clive Staples Lewis was born on 29 November 1898 in Belfast and had his early education at Malvern College and then at University College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself as an Oxford Scholar and received Chancellor s Essay Prize in 1921. Lewis passed B.A. in 1922 with First Class Honours in Literae Humaniores and English. After having a short stint in the Somerset Light Infantry, he served as Lecturer, University College, Oxford in 1924, then as Fellow in Magdalen College, Oxford from 1925 to 1954, and Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University from 1954 to 63. Lewis received many awards in his life including Gollancz Prize for Literature and Library Association Carnegie Medal. He became Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1948 and Fellow of the British Academy in 1955. Lewis died on 22 November 1963. A critic, novelist, poet and essayist, Lewis was a prolific writer, but in every field he left the mark of his original insight and profound scholarship. His outstanding critical writings include The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936), An Experiment in Criticism (1961) and Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966).

Revue de presse

An essential work in understanding both the literary approach of C.S. Lewis and the theological assumptions of Paradise Lost. Unparalleled in its conciseness. (I.S. Maclean, James Madison University)

Still the most lucid, useful, entertaining introduction to Milton's poem anyone has contrived to write. Traditional literary criticism at its best. (Lance E. Wilcox, Elmhurst College)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1961
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195003454
• ISBN 13: 9780195003451
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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