Paradise Lost: An Account of Its Growth and Major OriginsRussell & Russell, 1963 - 362 pages Paradise 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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Page 155
... Adam and Eve . His work , if Milton knew it , may have suggested the Apostate as an eavesdropper . The basic idea that Satan heard Adam convey the precept to Eve- probably reached Milton through the Paradise of Moses Bar Cepha , a work ...
... Adam and Eve . His work , if Milton knew it , may have suggested the Apostate as an eavesdropper . The basic idea that Satan heard Adam convey the precept to Eve- probably reached Milton through the Paradise of Moses Bar Cepha , a work ...
Page 177
... Adam lest she die and he marry another woman . Beaumont declared Eve played the ser- pent , ' because she desired Adam to share her misery ; Willet , to share her happiness ; and Tostatus concluded she princi- pally was motivated by ...
... Adam lest she die and he marry another woman . Beaumont declared Eve played the ser- pent , ' because she desired Adam to share her misery ; Willet , to share her happiness ; and Tostatus concluded she princi- pally was motivated by ...
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... Adam . Few sections of the poem are more charming than the lines on the evening star and the bower where Adam and Eve first lodged : Now came still evening on , and twilight gray Had in her sober livery ... Adam's ruin . ADAM UNPARADISED 283.
... Adam . Few sections of the poem are more charming than the lines on the evening star and the bower where Adam and Eve first lodged : Now came still evening on , and twilight gray Had in her sober livery ... Adam's ruin . ADAM UNPARADISED 283.
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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