fall of man in literature

Contains a selection of critical essays written in response to John Milton's "Paradise Lost" over the course of history, from the seventeenth through the twentieth century.

Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler.

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.