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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... Creation . The restless wheel of time has concealed the theological basis of the battle in heaven , so that Satan's rebellion now is read and enjoyed as imaginative literature . Such fortune has not befallen the tale of Creation . To ...
... Creation . The restless wheel of time has concealed the theological basis of the battle in heaven , so that Satan's rebellion now is read and enjoyed as imaginative literature . Such fortune has not befallen the tale of Creation . To ...
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... creation of the universe as principally an expression of God's infinite power . In harmony with the first chapters of Genesis , they declared that God conceived and built the world as a home and an empire for man . It then became the ...
... creation of the universe as principally an expression of God's infinite power . In harmony with the first chapters of Genesis , they declared that God conceived and built the world as a home and an empire for man . It then became the ...
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... Creation ; the second and conventional temptation he placed precisely one week later . By adding the unsuccessful seduction , Milton both met and utilized the belief that the Devil attacked man immediately following creation . Moreover ...
... Creation ; the second and conventional temptation he placed precisely one week later . By adding the unsuccessful seduction , Milton both met and utilized the belief that the Devil attacked man immediately following creation . Moreover ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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