书名：Paradise Lost 失乐园 约翰·弥尔顿 企鹅经典布面精装诗集

作者：John Milton

出版社名称：Penguin Classics

出版时间：2016

语种：英语

ISBN：9780241240618

商品尺寸：13.4 x 4 x 20.5 cm

包装：精装

页数：512（以实物为准）

在《失乐园》中，弥尔顿创作了一首史诗级的诗，描绘了一个巨大而令人敬畏的宇宙，它跨越了广阔的时空。然而，通过将魅力超凡的撒旦和赤身裸体的亚当和夏娃置于故事的中心，他也制造了一场关于人类堕落的强烈的人类悲剧。《失乐园》写于弥尔顿五十多岁的时候——失明，对复辟感到失望，短暂地处于被处决的危险之中——《失乐园》对权威明显的矛盾心理引发了激烈的争论，争论的焦点是它是否成功地“证明上帝对人类的方式是正确的”，还是揭露了基督教的残酷。

In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the center of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties—blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, and briefly in danger of execution—Paradise Lost’s apparent ambivalence toward authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to “justify the ways of God to men,” or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.

约翰 弥尔顿(1608-1674)早年从事学术研究。1649年，他投身于新英联邦的事业，用英语和拉丁语捍卫英国革命——在这一过程中牺牲了自己的视力。在复辟前夕(1660年)，他冒着生命危险出版了《建立自由联邦的简易方法》。他伟大的诗歌在这次政治失败后出版。

John Milton (1608–1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth, defending the English revolution both in English and Latin—and sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his life by publishing The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth on the eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat.