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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... Century as the Century of Genius . With equal truth we may name it the century of the Roman god Janus , for no period so unmistakably looked backward and forward . Within its years the scientific movement laid the foundations of mod ...
... Century as the Century of Genius . With equal truth we may name it the century of the Roman god Janus , for no period so unmistakably looked backward and forward . Within its years the scientific movement laid the foundations of mod ...
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... century Mistère du Viel Testament included The Overthrow of Lucifer , together with The Creation of the Angels , and The Creation of Adam and Eve . Despite a sustained interest in hexameral literature from the Sixth to the Fifteenth Century ...
... century Mistère du Viel Testament included The Overthrow of Lucifer , together with The Creation of the Angels , and The Creation of Adam and Eve . Despite a sustained interest in hexameral literature from the Sixth to the Fifteenth Century ...
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... Century , when Basil completed his hexameron , the genre had become well established . Contemporary and subsequent use by Ambrose and Gregory the Great en- sured its prestige . During the Sixteenth Century , Tasso and Du Bartas wrote ...
... Century , when Basil completed his hexameron , the genre had become well established . Contemporary and subsequent use by Ambrose and Gregory the Great en- sured its prestige . During the Sixteenth Century , Tasso and Du Bartas wrote ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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