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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 ...
A Preface to Paradise Lost is one of C. S. Lewis's most famous scholarly works. [1] The book had its genesis in Lewis's Ballard Matthews Lectures, [2] which he delivered at the University College of North Wales in 1941. [2] It discusses the epic poem Paradise Lost, by John Milton. [3]
The libretto for John Christopher Smith's oratorio Paradise Lost (1760) was by Benjamin Stillingfleet after Milton.; Paradise Lost was, apart from straight quotations of biblical texts, the basis on which the libretto for Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung (The Creation, 1798) was built, by, among others, Baron van Swieten.
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
Illustration for Paradise Regained. The poetic style of John Milton, also known as Miltonic verse, Miltonic epic, or Miltonic blank verse, was a highly influential poetic structure popularized by Milton. Although Milton wrote earlier poetry, his influence is largely grounded in his later poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson ...
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Pandæmonium (or Pandemonium in some versions of English) is the capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The name stems from the Greek pan (παν), meaning 'all' or 'every', and daimónion (δαιμόνιον), a diminutive form meaning 'little spirit', 'little angel', or, as Christians interpreted it, 'little ...
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