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
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.
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
Paradise Lost
…Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel…
The title page of Robert Andrews' translation of Virgil into English blank verse, printed by John Baskerville in 1766