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 146
... closely related to it . Milton's expression , ' under pendent shades , ' sets forth much the idea of Spenser's ' in the thickest covert of that shade fashioned above . ' Again , a ' bower ' or ' happy rural seat ' blessed with ...
... closely related to it . Milton's expression , ' under pendent shades , ' sets forth much the idea of Spenser's ' in the thickest covert of that shade fashioned above . ' Again , a ' bower ' or ' happy rural seat ' blessed with ...
Page 238
... Closely related to the literalists of the late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries was the Raphael of Milton's dia- logue on astronomy : Whether the sun , predominant in heaven , Rise on the earth , or earth rise on the sun Solicit not ...
... Closely related to the literalists of the late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries was the Raphael of Milton's dia- logue on astronomy : Whether the sun , predominant in heaven , Rise on the earth , or earth rise on the sun Solicit not ...
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... closely related to Paradise Lost . As much now may be said of the structural pattern which began with Mammon and closed with Satan exalted upon Pandemonium's royal throne . An analogue again is not lacking in secular litera- ture . It ...
... closely related to Paradise Lost . As much now may be said of the structural pattern which began with Mammon and closed with Satan exalted upon Pandemonium's royal throne . An analogue again is not lacking in secular litera- ture . It ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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