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Paradise lost proves a timely examination of a defining moment in the history of ethnic and religious conflict, not least for its unspoken reminder that the century that gave us srebrenica also gave us smyrna. Project gutenberg offers 61,752 free ebooks to download. When smyrna modern izmir fell to the turkish army in 1922, and much of it was destroyed by fire, the citys role as a bastion of greek and christian culture, going back nearly 2,000 years, came to an abrupt end. Paradise lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17thcentury english poet john milton. He completed it after five years of tremendous effort, since he was already totally blind when he began working. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of. Paradise lost by john milton is an outstanding work of world literature. Smyrna 1922 is one of the most important books written about. Paradise lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17thcentury english poet john milton 16081674. Smyrna, 1922 online on saturday, september 9, 1922, the victorious turkish cavalry rode into smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the ottoman empire. The citys vast wealth created centuries earlier by powerful. Paradise lost giles milton bok 9780465011193 bokus.
In september, 1922, after the turkish forces of mustafa kemal defeated a greek army that had recklessly occupied the anatolian city of smyrna. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. But cloud instead and everduring dark surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, presented with a universal blank of natures works, to me expunged and rased, and wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. As vergil had surpassed homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the authors nation, milton. Paradise lost tells the forgotten story of the sack of smyrna, once the most opulent and cosmopolitan city in the ottoman empire in september, 1922, the turkish cavalry swept into smyrna the crowning triumph to their three year war with greece. Paradise lost proves a timely examination of a defining moment in the history of ethnic and religious conflict, not least for its unspoken reminder that the century that gave us srebrenica also. The destruction of islams city of tolerance by giles milton. The destruction of a cosmopolitan city, 19001922 opened this paradiselostsmyrna1922 giles. Written when milton was in his fifties blind, bitterly disappointed by the restoration and briefly in danger of. The entire work, consisting of nearly ten thousand individual lines of blank verse was dictated.
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