书名：Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained 失乐园和复乐园
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1460
作者：John Milton弥尔顿
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2006
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451531643
商品尺寸：10.7 x2.5 x 17.2 cm
包装：简装
页数：372 （以实物为准）

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained《失乐园》和《复乐园》是英格兰诗人约翰·弥尔顿写着的两首诗，本版本为Signet Classics推出的简装便携全英文版，由英国文学批评家、学者Christopher Ricks主编，收录爱默生的书信、随笔、演讲、诗歌等，包括《论自然》等名篇。另由Dr. Susanne Woods作序，Fay Weldon写后记，有助于理解作品及作者创作背景。
《失乐园》是英国文学中一部极其重要的史诗巨著，与《荷马史诗》《神曲》并称为西方三大诗歌。《失乐园》采用宗教讽喻的形式，展示了作者的思想观点；其基本思想让人一目了然：即揭露当时的反革命力量，表达对自由的强烈呼吁。《失乐园》文笔华丽，《复乐园》却是用比较平淡的笔法写成的。在《复乐园》中，弥尔顿减少了直喻的使用，语法也不很复杂。学者们一般都同意诺斯罗普·弗莱，认为《复乐园》在文法格式上都尤为自成一格。
“[Milton] belongs with Shakespeare and Wordsworth precisely because his writing balances so transcendently both the conservative and the revolutionary. In one artistic lifetime, he was both historian an d explorer.”   — CHRISTOPHER RICKS
Here in one volume are the texts of the two of the greatest —and most controversial —epic poems in English literature, each a profound exploration of the moral problems of God’s justice.  Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained demonstrate Milton’s genius for fusing sense and sound. Classicism and innovation, narrative and drama, fortifying not merely our sense of what is beautiful but what is human as well.  It leaves readers with no choice but to commit themselves totally with their minds and with their hearts. 
“[Milton] can please when pleasure is required; but it is his peculiar power to astonish.”  — SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Life of Milton
Edited and with Notes by Christopher Ricks
With an Introduction by Dr. Susanne Woods and a New Afterword by Fay Weldon

These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton’s genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God’s justice-and what it truly means to be human.
《失乐园》讲述了撒旦率领众天使反抗上帝失败后，引诱伊甸园中的亚当和夏娃，偷食智慧树上的禁果，利用上帝创造的人类反抗上帝的统治。亚当和夏娃最终丧失了永生的权利，被逐出伊甸园，去耕种上帝给予的土地，去面对充满活力和挑战的现实生活。全诗暗指当时的资产阶级革命由于丧失理性而使得王朝复辟，表达革命失败后的内心痛苦及反省，揭示了人的原罪与堕落。
《复乐园》与《力士参孙》出现在约翰·弥尔顿的同一卷文献中，与之前的著作《失乐园》紧密相关，有着同样的理论主题。其内容主要取材自路加福音中耶稣受试探的故事。作家以饱满的热情讴歌了耶稣的降生，讲述了耶稣抵御住撒旦的诱惑，从而拯救人类重返伊甸园的故事。在《复乐园》里，撒旦是一个十足的恶魔，与《失乐园》中的撒旦有明显的区别。

约翰·弥尔顿（John Milton，1608-1674），英国诗人、思想家、政论家，民主斗士。弥尔顿是清教徒文学的代表，他一生为资产阶级民主运动而奋斗，参加宗教和政治论战，发表不少政论文，其中反对书报审查制的《论出版自由》最为有名。后因劳累过度双目失明，口述完成使他名扬后世的三部伟大著作：《失乐园》（1667），《复乐园》（1671）和《力士参孙》（1671）。《失乐园》共12卷，取材自《圣经·旧约·创世记》，描述撒旦引诱亚当和夏娃偷尝禁果而被逐出伊甸园的故事，是弥尔顿最有名的代表作，也是英国文学中一部极其重要的杰出史诗，与《荷马史诗》《神曲》并称为西方三大诗歌。
John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and studied at the University of Cambridge. He originally planned to become a clergyman, but abandoned those ambitions to become a poet. Political in his writings, he served a government post during the time of the Commonwealth. In 1651, he went completely blind but he continued to write, finishing Paradise Lost in 1667, and Paradise Regained in 1671. He died in 1674.
Christopher Ricks is professor of humanities at Boston University and most recently author of Dylan’s Visions of Sin.
Susanne Woodsis a Provost and Professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and Chair of the professional Northeast Milton Seminar. Her doctorate is from Columbia University and she has taught at the University of Hawaii, Franklin & Marshall College, and at Brown University, where she maintains an affiliation. Her books include Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden (1984), and Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet (1999), and she has published numerous articles on Milton and other English renaissance poets.
Fay Weldon wasbrought up in New Zealand and returned to the United Kingdom when she was fifteen. She read Economics and Psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and worked briefly for the Foreign Office in London, then as a journalist, and thenas an advertising copywriter. Her first novel,The Fat Woman’s Joke, was published in 1967. Fay Weldon’s work includes more than twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children’s books, nonfiction books, magazine articles, and a number of plays written for television, radio, and the stage, including the pilot episode for the television seriesUpstairs Downstairs. In 2001 she was awarded a CBE. 

Introduction
A Note on This Edition
Chronology

PARADISE LOST
    The Verse
    Book I
    Book II
    Book III
    BookIV 
    Book V
    Book VI
    Book VII
    Book VIII
    Book IX
    Book X
    Book XI
    Book XII

PARADISE REGAINED 
    Book I
    Book II
    Book III
    Book IV

Afterword
Selected Bibliography
A General Note on the Text

  OF MAN’S first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed
Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all temples the upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know’st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread,
Dove-like sat’st brooding on the vast Abyss,
And mad’st it pregnant: what in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That, to the highth of this great argument,
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.
  Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from thy view,
Nor the deep tract of Hell—say first what cause
Moved our grand Parents, in that happy state,
Favoured of Heaven so highly, to fall off
From their Creator, and transgress his will
For one restraint, lords of the World besides.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
  The infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind, what time his pride
Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring
To set himself in glory above his peers,
He trusted to have equalled the Most High,
If he opposed, and, with ambitious aim
Against the throne and monarchy of God,
Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud,
With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky,