Blank verse
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Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has ta
The title page of Robert Andrews' translation of Virgil into English blank verse, printed by John Baskerville in 1766
Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton. The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and thei
Blank verse
…English blank verse were made by William Shakespeare, who wrote much of the content of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter, and John Milton, whose Paradise Lost is written in blank verse. Miltonic blank verse was widely imitated in the 18th century by such poets as James Thomson (in The Seasons) and William…
Title page of the first edition (1667)
Image extracted from page 362 of The Poetical Works of John Milton. Containing Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained. Samson Agonistes, and his Poems on several occasions, by Milton, John, Michael Burghers (1695).
Milton Dictating to His Daughter, Henry Fuseli (1794)
Gustave Doré, The Heavenly Hosts, c. 1866, illustration to Paradise Lost.