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 57
... Bartas presented virtually the same details in pre- cisely the same sequence . However , the beginning of one sequence is the end of the other . Should we open with the last Du Bartian correspondence , we meet a picture of the dead ...
... Bartas presented virtually the same details in pre- cisely the same sequence . However , the beginning of one sequence is the end of the other . Should we open with the last Du Bartian correspondence , we meet a picture of the dead ...
Page 188
... Bartas . In that book of the Divine Weeks entitled The Handicrafts , the Adam of Du Bartas saw in a vision important events of the future , and described ' that which should befall his posterity unto the end of the first world destroyed ...
... Bartas . In that book of the Divine Weeks entitled The Handicrafts , the Adam of Du Bartas saw in a vision important events of the future , and described ' that which should befall his posterity unto the end of the first world destroyed ...
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... Bartas . Unless we may assume that within seven lines Milton could use by chance an equal number of words , phrases , and ideas employed by Du Bartas in double the number , this passage from Paradise Lost was heavily indebted to the ...
... Bartas . Unless we may assume that within seven lines Milton could use by chance an equal number of words , phrases , and ideas employed by Du Bartas in double the number , this passage from Paradise Lost was heavily indebted to the ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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