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Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
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 READING LIST: Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes Claire Allfree
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 ...
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]
In the preface, the author claims to have stated 20,000 facts gathered from some 2,000 books and from 100 select authors. [24] The extant lists of his authorities cover more than 400, including 146 Roman and 327 Greek and other sources of information. The lists generally follow the order of the subject matter of each book.
As a work of dramatic fiction, Death in Paradise is a solidly unspectacular affair: the writing is simple and repetitive to a fault, the acting broad and stilted. But there’s got to be a reason ...
The State of Innocence is a dramatic work by John Dryden, originally intended as the libretto to an opera.It was written around 1673–4, [1] and first published in 1677. The work is a rhymed adaption of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, and retells the Biblical story of the fall of man.