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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... idea previously had been joined by Godfrey Goodman in The Fall of Man , an extended treatise first published during ... ideas found in the Mosaic account of the Six Days of Creation . This is not to say that Milton followed closely the ...
... idea previously had been joined by Godfrey Goodman in The Fall of Man , an extended treatise first published during ... ideas found in the Mosaic account of the Six Days of Creation . This is not to say that Milton followed closely the ...
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... idea , according to which Satan disguised himself as a good spirit , rested ultimately upon 2 Corinthians 11 : 14 : ' For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light . ' Few beliefs had wider currency in Christendom than this ...
... idea , according to which Satan disguised himself as a good spirit , rested ultimately upon 2 Corinthians 11 : 14 : ' For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light . ' Few beliefs had wider currency in Christendom than this ...
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... idea , previously mentioned , that Satan held for man a deadly and unre- lenting envy . The major support of the idea , developed most completely in Book IX of the epic , proceeded from the apochryphal Wisdom of Solomon 2. 24 ...
... idea , previously mentioned , that Satan held for man a deadly and unre- lenting envy . The major support of the idea , developed most completely in Book IX of the epic , proceeded from the apochryphal Wisdom of Solomon 2. 24 ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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