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 21
... passages , all of which modern scholarship has found unconnected with either . A second stage brought together these pas- sages , and in some measure unified them . Imagination then augmented further the primarily religious content ...
... passages , all of which modern scholarship has found unconnected with either . A second stage brought together these pas- sages , and in some measure unified them . Imagination then augmented further the primarily religious content ...
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... passages in Book IV which described the mountain of Paradise as a wooded hill , and a fourth which declared it not Mount Amara , a subsequent passage trans- formed the shaggy hill into the towering rock known to the Seventeenth Century ...
... passages in Book IV which described the mountain of Paradise as a wooded hill , and a fourth which declared it not Mount Amara , a subsequent passage trans- formed the shaggy hill into the towering rock known to the Seventeenth Century ...
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... passages and fragments , four have described Paradise as the wooded Spenserian mountain , and one as not Mount Amara . Each and all of these five passages belong to sections of the epic definitely foreshadowed by Adam Unparadised . In ...
... passages and fragments , four have described Paradise as the wooded Spenserian mountain , and one as not Mount Amara . Each and all of these five passages belong to sections of the epic definitely foreshadowed by Adam Unparadised . In ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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