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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse . A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil 's Aeneid ) with minor revisions throughout.
Here again he was not an innovator, following for example the Adamus Exul (1601) of Hugo Grotius, and the Adamo (1615) of Giovanni Battista Andreini. Milton believed that the Bible was a precursor to the classical forms relied on by the Greeks and Romans, and that the Bible accomplished what the Greeks and Romans wished in a more suitable ...
Not even the parallelismus membrorum is an absolutely certain indication of ancient Hebrew poetry. This "parallelism" occurs in the portions of the Hebrew Bible that are at the same time marked frequently by the so-called dialectus poetica; it consists in a remarkable correspondence in the ideas expressed in two successive units (hemistiches, verses, strophes, or larger units); for example ...
"Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666", commonly shortened to "Verses upon the Burning of Our House", is a poem by Anne Bradstreet ...
In 'The Lost Daughter,' an exhausted mother crushed by responsibility leaves her family behind. Three mothers who did the same explain their choice. The overwhelmed heroine of 'The Lost Daughter ...
We lost the essence of all the dreams and hopes and rites of passage,” writes Bunny Stevens. “A mother’s breaking heart.” Remembering Shannon, the daughter I lost long ago | Opinion
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (also known as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God) is a 1682 memoir written by Mary (White) Rowlandson, a married English colonist and mother who was captured in 1675 in an attack by Native Americans during King Philip's War.
Viewers of the Netflix docuseries Into The Fire: The Lost Daughter will be more than familiar with the powerhouse that is Cathy Terkanian: The woman who gave up her daughter at the age of 16 ...