Paradise Lost
an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
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Susanna Clarke’s haunting, haunted Piranesi is one of the most astonishing books I’ve read in a very long time, sort of Narnia meets Paradise Lost meets Borges.
This September, the Vox Book Club returns with Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi | Constance Grady | September 1, 2021 | VoxLocke mentioned it in his Second Treatise on Government; Milton dreamed of it in Paradise Lost.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and Savvy | Michael Weiss | February 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTParadise Lost and War and Peace and The Man Without Qualities, and the last six volumes of Proust.
What Thurstane felt he could only express by recalling random lines of the "Paradise Lost."
Overland | John William De ForestMilton, in ‘Paradise Lost,’ alludes to ‘the dreaded name of Demogorgon.’
Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport Adams
That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work, excellent as it is, to the Paradise Lost, we readily admit.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII | John LordNor are all his poems equal: his Paradise Lost, his Comus, and a few others, shine out amidst some flat and insipid compositions.
Milton is said to have corrected at Chalfont some of the sheets of the "Paradise Lost."
Cultural definitions for Paradise Lost
(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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