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 280
... epic . True it is that the national epic did not survive in this form , but it nevertheless received being in the History of Britain . The outlined drama of Adam Un- paradised became a related , intermediate stage of the epic Paradise ...
... epic . True it is that the national epic did not survive in this form , but it nevertheless received being in the History of Britain . The outlined drama of Adam Un- paradised became a related , intermediate stage of the epic Paradise ...
Page 318
... epic included in the draft and those not foreshadowed by it . On the other , discrepancies occur between parts of the poem writ- ten before 1660 , and other parts composed at a later date , both of which developed from Adam Unparadised ...
... epic included in the draft and those not foreshadowed by it . On the other , discrepancies occur between parts of the poem writ- ten before 1660 , and other parts composed at a later date , both of which developed from Adam Unparadised ...
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... epic , it opened within hell . By beginning the epic in hell , and later using Raphael as narrator of the battle in heaven , Milton avoided a disconcerting shift of scene . Use of Raphael , rather than a chorus , made his revelation ...
... epic , it opened within hell . By beginning the epic in hell , and later using Raphael as narrator of the battle in heaven , Milton avoided a disconcerting shift of scene . Use of Raphael , rather than a chorus , made his revelation ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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