Milton and the Natural World
Subtitle: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780521017480
Subjects: Works by individual poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Poetry; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Milton, John, --1608-1674.--Paradise lost Mil; Milton, John,--1608-1674.--Paradise lost; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: That Eve praises experience almost immediately after she eats the forbidden fruit has suggested to many readers that Milton intended to criticize experience as a route to wisdom.