Sentences with phrase «wrote paradise lost»

In fact, the whole purpose of the discernment of spirits coincides with Milton's purpose in writing Paradise Lost: as Fish has rightly seen (and he was the first to do so), Milton wants us to live through the consequences of sin in our imaginative reenactment of salvation history (no wonder he felt that Paradise Regained was the capstone of his work) in order to keep us from the more dire lessons that life imparts.

First of all, HGSE was founded not in the 1600s when Milton was writing Paradise Lost, but in 1920, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing This Side of Paradise.

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I mentioned these essays to one of my colleagues, who told me of some students of his who bad written about Book IX of Milton's Paradise Lost, in which the Fall is described.

One college student wrote, «I have always pictured him according to a description in Paradise Lost as seated upon a throne, while around are angels playing on harps and singing hymns.»

Prior to this book, most Miltonists had divided themselves into two camps: those who believed that Milton was sincere in his Roundhead and Puritan convictions and wrote only to edify his readers, and those who believed that, at least in Paradise Lost, he was (in William Blake's famous phrase) «of the Devil's party without knowing it.»

Paradise Lost marks the feature directorial and writing debut of actor Andrea di Stefano (Nine, Eat Pray Love).

Di Stefano recently wrote and directed Escobar: Paradise Lost starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson.

Variety reports that «Anonymous» actor Sam Reid is set to make the move from deciphering the truth of Shakespeare's writing credits in disaster driven director Roland Emmerich's film, to an action - heavy take on John Milton's poem «Paradise Lost.»

She rarely even leaves her house, but writes about adventures all over the world, so she's the hero of choice for a girl (Breslin) whose island paradise is invaded after her father is lost at sea.

The first picture was of simple, nightmarish thrills that Book of Shadows prefers to comment on rather than top — its scares are hooked on the hype surrounding the fictitious original, so that the mass hysteria The Blair Witch Project supposedly caused (I don't recall any «War of the Worlds» - type panic in the streets) returns in the form of distrust between the tourists; Berlinger, one half a gifted documentary team (he co-directed the acclaimed Paradise Lost films with Bruce Sinofsky), should've opted to write a FILM COMMENT piece instead.

Most of the work being offered to me involved one or the other — or the high concept situation I described (my book The Paradise Prophecy)-- to the point where I felt I was getting lost, not writing what I really wanted to write and needed to bail.

In «The Killer of Kings,» the short story in Anjali Sachdeva's collection All the Names They Used for God, John Milton (1608 - 1674), secluded in the English countryside after being charged and fined for publishing a tract that contemplated regicide, writes his epic poem Paradise Lost with the help of a muse, an angel the blind poet can only see in his mind.

Derek Murphy has an MA in Harry Potter and a PhD in Paradise Lost; studied fine art in Florence and philosophy in Malta; and has been featured in CNN for running writing retreats in medieval castles.

I went back to school, wrote my MA thesis on Harry Potter and my PhD Thesis on Paradise Lost.