Paradise Lost: An Account of Its Growth and Major OriginsParadise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books with minor revisions throughout. |
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... tradition burst into full flower , and , as I shall reiterate , produced the hexamera which largely set the pat- tern for many subsequent works . The greatest single Hexameron from the point of view of the writers in- fluenced by it ...
... tradition burst into full flower , and , as I shall reiterate , produced the hexamera which largely set the pat- tern for many subsequent works . The greatest single Hexameron from the point of view of the writers in- fluenced by it ...
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... tradition which chiefly nourished Paradise Lost , but it was known in Lon- don during the decade when Milton set seriously to work upon his epic . Such circumstances make doubly significant this early poem . Of the following excerpts ...
... tradition which chiefly nourished Paradise Lost , but it was known in Lon- don during the decade when Milton set seriously to work upon his epic . Such circumstances make doubly significant this early poem . Of the following excerpts ...
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... tradition of the early Seventeenth and preceding Centuries . This powerful lit- erary genre took its rise from the integrated contributions of unnumbered writers . Beginning as unrelated interpre- tations of scattered passages of ...
... tradition of the early Seventeenth and preceding Centuries . This powerful lit- erary genre took its rise from the integrated contributions of unnumbered writers . Beginning as unrelated interpre- tations of scattered passages of ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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