I like to say to my students, "You don't read Paradise Lost-Paradise Lost reads you. In many ways, it is an indication not just of your learnedness, your aesthetic sensibilities, or your poetic imagination. It seems also to function as a test of one's spiritual discernment and sensitivity. It is no ordinary book-it stands alone, even as Milton intended from Dr. Horner's Worldview Guide. The Worldview Guides from the Canon Classics Literature Series provide an aesthetic and thematic Christian perspective on the most ...
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I like to say to my students, "You don't read Paradise Lost-Paradise Lost reads you. In many ways, it is an indication not just of your learnedness, your aesthetic sensibilities, or your poetic imagination. It seems also to function as a test of one's spiritual discernment and sensitivity. It is no ordinary book-it stands alone, even as Milton intended from Dr. Horner's Worldview Guide. The Worldview Guides from the Canon Classics Literature Series provide an aesthetic and thematic Christian perspective on the most definitive and daunting works of Western Literature. Each Worldview Guide presents the big picture (both the good and the bad) without neglecting the details. Each Worldview Guide is a friendly literary coach -- and a treasure map, and a compass, and a key -- to help teachers, parents, and students appreciate, critique, and begin to master the classics. The bite-size WGs are divided into these ten sections (with some variation due to genre): Introduction, The World Around, About the Author, What Other Notables Said, Setting, Characters, & Plot Summary, Worldview Analysis, Quotables, 21 Significant Questions & Answers, and Further Discussion & Review. A free classics test and answer key are also available online"--
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