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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... Divine Comedy , and in seventeenth - century England the picture of the divine hand circumscribing the cosmos was a well - known printer's ornament . Partially supporting this figure stood the Pla- tonic idea of God , or the Son , as ...
... Divine Comedy , and in seventeenth - century England the picture of the divine hand circumscribing the cosmos was a well - known printer's ornament . Partially supporting this figure stood the Pla- tonic idea of God , or the Son , as ...
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... Divine Weeks . Throughout the seven hundred and fifty verses which began with Adam's first vision of Book XI , and closed with Michael's first revelation of Book XII , Milton's narrative has followed such a pattern as that employed in ...
... Divine Weeks . Throughout the seven hundred and fifty verses which began with Adam's first vision of Book XI , and closed with Michael's first revelation of Book XII , Milton's narrative has followed such a pattern as that employed in ...
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... Divine attributes as God's justice and mercy . As a result , a number of writers which included Du Bartas and Joseph Fletcher pictured these or related qualities as if in debate . Fletcher , author of The Perfect , Cursed , Blessed Man ...
... Divine attributes as God's justice and mercy . As a result , a number of writers which included Du Bartas and Joseph Fletcher pictured these or related qualities as if in debate . Fletcher , author of The Perfect , Cursed , Blessed Man ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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