Milton's sonnets

Author: (English) Virgil
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: Milton's fourteen sonnets sweep away the artificiality and pedantic tricks of Elizabethan sonnets, replacing them with straightforwardness and vigor. The twenty-five poems cover love, revolution, politics, religious matters, reflections on life, narratives of daily life, discussions on the art of poetry, music, and friendship. The verses reveal the sublime in the ordinary and the eternal in the simple. The author, Jin Fashen, is a seasoned translator and an authority on Milton's literary studies in China. His translation is fluent and fresh. The classic original, combined with the translator's rigor, undoubtedly presents readers with a superior spiritual feast.