It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankinds destiny. We know that Milton was indeed “long choosing, and beginning late” in the sacred subject of his “Heroic Song”: so he tells us in the invocation to Book 9 of his poem. John Miltons Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language.
We need to begin, then, by addressing the literary choices and vocational issues that led to the composition of Milton's sublime epic. Yet Milton's earlier career can be seen as essential preparation for this great visionary project whose sacred subject and ambitious form he considered over many years. Although he had published his youthful Poems (1645–6) and had achieved considerable prominence as a controversial pamphleteer, he had still not written anything in verse nearly as ambitious nor as comprehensive as Paradise Lost. Renovate, equip and restore the shine of the food truck that belonged to your father. Milton, in fact, first conceived the poem as a dramatentatively titled Adam Unparadisedand at least one section of Satan’s Book IV soliloquy was evidently written with the stage in mind. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Paradise Lost, by John Milton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
By the time Milton wrote Paradise Lost, he was a blind man in his fifties, disappointed with the failures of church and state reformation, and yet aspiring to write a new kind of epic poem – one focusing on sacred truths and attempting, after the collapse of the English Revolution, to “assert Eternal Providence, / And justify the ways of God to men” (1.25–6). Paradise Lost is an epic poem, yet elements of Milton’s work are undeniably theatrical and are indebted more to the dramatic genre than the epic. The sublime prophetic poem which so impressed Andrew Marvell in the lines quoted in the preface to this volume was not the work of a youthful poet.
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