Paradise Lost

American  

noun

1. an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.

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Paradise Lost Cultural  

1. (1667) An epic by John Milton. Its subject is the Fall of Man; it also tells the stories of the rebellion and punishment of Satan and the creation of Adam and Eve. Milton declares that his aim in the poem is “to justify the ways of God to men.”

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Example Sentences

As parts of the city smoldered, many turned to Didion’s aching, poetic rendering of a paradise lost.

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In his 1998 book “Paradise Lost,” Schrag sought not simply to foretell the region’s future, but to explicate how its future foretold what was in store for the country as a whole.

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I remember studying “Paradise Lost” in school and how the professor explained that the devil was Milton’s coolest character, by design.

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Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ ... is not immaterial to the world we were trying to create in Barbie Land.

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Just think how much discomfort — and enlightenment — “Paradise Lost’s” most famous line, uttered by that great fictional character Satan, delivers: “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”

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