Paradise lost translations full#

Yeah, you read it, you know who you are, and you even liked it, but you know very well they all made fun of you in the cafeteria behind your back because you read while you ate your chicken nuggets. Most of them don't read what you assign them, even most of the elite students at the better schools, except the crazy loons who are going to end up in graduate school getting their degrees in English Literature. Anything you can do to make students actually read ANYTHING they are assigned, whether it's in modern English or not, means that they will be reading SOMETHING. Also, Satan is one of the most goofy and wrongheaded characters in modern Literature.īut let's get something straight here.

Paradise lost translations full#

I know it's great literature, and of course I was reading it because some of the faculty in my department are arguing over whether any of it should be on our reading list for high school seniors or not, but what I got out of reading it was that it was great fun and weird as a furry teakettle full of Dipping Dots on a hot plate. I read Paradise Lost last summer, with a pencil in hand, summarizing every few lines in the margins. Posted by Devils Rancher at 7:00 PM on December 1, 2008 Turns out my wife isn't exactly a Neruda fan, but hey, she loves me anyway, and I like the book, so it worked out great that time. I know just enough Spanish to get myself in bad trouble, so I thought that was really helpful in enjoying the beauty of his work. I got my new wife (no more divorces! Like EVAR!) a copy of the love poems of Pablo Neruda when we first met, and it had Spanish|English on each page.

I need me some modern idiom, and I think a side-by-side 'translation' might be just the ticket. then realized I understood not a single sentence, an only rarely individual words. I struggled and labored for hour upon hour through - uh. When I divorced the last time, I moved to a little house on Milton street, so I decided that since I had all this free time, being single and all, that maybe I'd read a copy of Paradise Lost that I'd just picked up on the cheap, since hey, it was Milton street, and all that.