1877 John MILTON Paradise Lost Sonnets Psalms English Poems 2v ART ILLUSTRATED



“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

? John Milton, Paradise Lost



A charming collection of John Miltons works including Paradise Lost and Paradise Regaind among his other poetry and writings. This book is filled with eight steel engravings and is bound in a red and gold embossed cover.



Paradise Lost was critically acclaimed and well-received by many famed personalities, including Samuel Johnson who states.

“[Paradise Lost shows] Miltons peculiar power to astonish…and he seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was the Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others: the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful.



In addition to the Paradise works, this book includes Miltons sonnets, Paradise Regained, and various translations.



Item number: #24614

Price: $599



MILTON, John



The poetical works of John Milton



London: George Bell, 1877.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes

Vol. I – [2], iv, lii, 508

Vol. II – viii, 511, [1]

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861

Dozens of in-text engravings throughout

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~7.25in X 4.75in (18.5cm x 12cm)



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