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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... picture in the second act of the drama Adam . The spirit of Milton's passage also is that of numerous descrip- tions of Abraham's entertainment of the three angels . In keeping with such descriptions , his account ' presents a beautiful ...
... picture in the second act of the drama Adam . The spirit of Milton's passage also is that of numerous descrip- tions of Abraham's entertainment of the three angels . In keeping with such descriptions , his account ' presents a beautiful ...
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... picture of Satan attacking the fancy of Eve . In the De Lamiis of 1582 , Wier entitled his eighth chapter ' De Phantasia , ' and discussed at length the power of evil spirits over human fancy and imagination . Psellus declared in De ...
... picture of Satan attacking the fancy of Eve . In the De Lamiis of 1582 , Wier entitled his eighth chapter ' De Phantasia , ' and discussed at length the power of evil spirits over human fancy and imagination . Psellus declared in De ...
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... picture was better known than that which painted hell as alive with ser- pents . It occurred and recurred , among others , in the works of Beaumont , Cowley , Fletcher , Heywood , Marini , and Tasso . In one scene by Beaumont : The ...
... picture was better known than that which painted hell as alive with ser- pents . It occurred and recurred , among others , in the works of Beaumont , Cowley , Fletcher , Heywood , Marini , and Tasso . In one scene by Beaumont : The ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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