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Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. Born in Canada, Catton moved to New Zealand as a child and grew up in Christchurch . She completed a master's degree in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters .
The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost"), William Blake (1808). Raphael is an archangel who is sent by God to Eden in order to strengthen Adam and Eve against Satan. He tells a heroic tale about the War in Heaven that takes up most of Book 6 of Paradise Lost. Ultimately, the story told by Raphael, in ...
The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. [2] Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields.
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Paradises Lost was the only original story in the book: all the others had been previously published elsewhere. [ 1 ] [ 38 ] [ 45 ] According to scholar Sandra Lindow , all of the works in the collection (with the exception of " Old Music and the Slave Women ") examine unorthodox sexual relationships and marriage; in the case of Paradises Lost ...
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"On the Elements of Milton's Blank Verse in Paradise Lost". In Beeching, H. C. (ed.). Paradise Lost, Book I. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Bridges, Robert (1889). On the Prosody of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes: Being a Supplement to the paper "On the Elements of Milton's Blank Verse in Paradise Lost," which is reprinted in the Rev. H. C ...
Paradise Lost influenced Mary Shelley when she wrote her novel Frankenstein. Shelley uses a quote from Book X of Paradise Lost on the epigram page of her novel and Paradise Lost is one of three books Frankenstein's monster finds; this, therefore, influences his psychological growth. The concept of the "Fallen Angel," an epithet of Satan, is ...