Evariste-Désiré de Parny, 'Le Paradis perdu'

Evariste-Désiré de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century for his lyric poems, especially the Poésies Erotiques (1778-81), and the prose-poems in Chansons Madécasses (1787). He also wrote much humorous verse, including the anti-religious La Guerre des Dieux (1799) and Le Paradis perdu (1805). The latter is a parody of Milton's Paradise Lost in four relatively short cantos. It gives a central place to the War in Heaven, casting Satan as a revolutionary. It is highly entertaining in itself, and also an important example of parody as critical response to an original text.

• | Author: Ritchie Robertson
• | Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 102 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0947623906
• | ISBN-13: 9780947623906