Paradise Lost: An Account of Its Growth and Major OriginsParadise 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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... interpretation of the verses involved , and secondly developed a comple- mentary ( or supplementary ) version generally more ex- tended than the original . For his account of the Garden , Milton versified a conventional interpretation ...
... interpretation of the verses involved , and secondly developed a comple- mentary ( or supplementary ) version generally more ex- tended than the original . For his account of the Garden , Milton versified a conventional interpretation ...
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... interpretation - that ' Adam fell on the eighth day of his creation , that day seven - night wherein he was made . ' For his separate temptations , Milton selected the periods advocated by the two most authoritative interpretations ...
... interpretation - that ' Adam fell on the eighth day of his creation , that day seven - night wherein he was made . ' For his separate temptations , Milton selected the periods advocated by the two most authoritative interpretations ...
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... interpretation too forced which regards as a ref- erence to the poem's publication , the thought of that Aubrey employed in his ' fifteen or sixteen years before ever his poem was thought of . ' If so , I may quote a similar conclusion ...
... interpretation too forced which regards as a ref- erence to the poem's publication , the thought of that Aubrey employed in his ' fifteen or sixteen years before ever his poem was thought of . ' If so , I may quote a similar conclusion ...
Contents
PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX | 1 |
PART I | 17 |
THE BATTLE IN HEAVEN | 21 |
Copyright | |
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