Paradise Lost
| Paradise Lost | |
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 Title page of the first edition (1668) | |
| Author(s) | John Milton |
| Cover artist | J. B. de Medina and Henry Aldrich |
| Country | England |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Epic poetry, Christian mythology |
| Publisher | Samuel Simmons (original) |
| Publication date | 1667 |
| Media type | |
| Followed by | Paradise Regained |
| Read online | Paradise Lost at Wikisource |
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton(1608-1674). It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, changed into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification.[1] It is considered by critics to be Milton's "major work", and the work helped to solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.
The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve By by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men".
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