Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes [Paradist Lost and Other Poems] (International Collectors Library)

395 pp. Marie Antoinette replica binding. Brown leatherette boards, gilt titles and decorations, ribbon marker bound in, brown endpapers. Includes: Introduction by Richard Eberhart; Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes. "Rich as 'Paradise Lost' is in sub-plots and digressions, it adheres unswervingly to its one grand, unified theme - the sin of man and the ultimate love of God. In 'Paradise Regained' the poet narrates the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. 'Samson Agonistes' is the tragedy of the Biblical strong man - a picture, too, of blind Milton helpless before his Royalist foes."