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Paradise Lost

Author
John Milton
Series
Epic Story
Language
English
Length
278 pages
ISBN
9781911535041
Published
2 September 2016
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • John Milton
  • poetry
  • Romantic Age
  • Romanticism
  • mystic
  • mysticism
  • poetic
  • soul
  • human soul
  • illumination

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The poem is based on the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton originally envisioned his epic to be based on a legendary Saxon or British king like the legend of King Arthur.

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John Milton (1608–1674) wrote the English epic that still defines the language of heaven and hell. Paradise Lost, composed in blank verse after the Civil War and in the darkness of his blindness, retells the Fall with a grandeur that makes Satan magnetic and Adam and Eve painfully human. Milton was also a polemicist for liberty — of press, of conscience, of the commonwealth — and a civil servant under Cromwell.

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