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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An Account of Its Growth and Major Origins Grant McColley. Exalted from so base original , With heavenly spoils , our spoils . What he decreed He effected : Man he made , and for him built Magnificent this world , and earth his seat ...
An Account of Its Growth and Major Origins Grant McColley. Exalted from so base original , With heavenly spoils , our spoils . What he decreed He effected : Man he made , and for him built Magnificent this world , and earth his seat ...
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... original Book VII . This he did with good reason . As the following chapter may suggest , the conventional story of God's creating the world frequently included the basic themes presented so effec- tively in Book VIII . CHAPTER IV THE ...
... original Book VII . This he did with good reason . As the following chapter may suggest , the conventional story of God's creating the world frequently included the basic themes presented so effec- tively in Book VIII . CHAPTER IV THE ...
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... original . For his account of the Garden , Milton versified a conventional interpretation of Genesis 2. 8-14 . In this instance , the relatively standard interpre- tation of Scripture which he followed had made to Genesis three ...
... original . For his account of the Garden , Milton versified a conventional interpretation of Genesis 2. 8-14 . In this instance , the relatively standard interpre- tation of Scripture which he followed had made to Genesis three ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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