Paradise Lost by John Milton (Book Analysis) E-Book

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Paradise Lost by John Milton, an epic poem which brings the Biblical tale of the fall of humanity to life. Drawing on classical works in addition to Christian theology, the narrative spans the Fall of Satan, the temptation of Adam and Eve and eventually their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. John Milton was a polemicist as well as a poet, and staunchly defended free speech and intellectual liberty in his work. Today, he is best remembered as the author of Paradise Lost, which is generally considered his masterpiece.

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JOHN MILTON

ENGLISH POET AND POLEMICIST

Born in London in 1608.Died in London in 1674.Notable works:“Lycidas” (1637), poem (pastoral elegy)Paradise Regained (1671), epic poemSamson Agonistes (1671), tragic closet drama (play not intended for performance)

Milton was born into the family of composer John Milton (1562-1647) and privately educated from a young age in a number of ancient and modern languages (including Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian). He went on to study at Christ’s College, Cambridge for his B.A. and M.A., and began to write poems in Latin, masques for private performance and poetry with religious themes. His first published poem, “On Shakespeare”, appeared in 1630 as the preface to a Shakespeare folio printing. Shortly after, Milton moved to the country with his family, and the sudden death of his mother, followed by the drowning of a Cambridge fellow shortly afterwards, inspired “Lycidas” (1638). Milton then spent time in Italy, returning to become a teacher and polemicist standing against Catholic bishops and for divorce. In 1649 he published a prose tract on the lawfulness of killing kings just before the execution of Charles I (King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1600-1649), which earned him a job in the new Republic as Secretary for Foreign Tongues. The Restoration of the monarchy forced Milton, who had lost his eyesight, to go into hiding abroad and he faced a brief period of imprisonment before powerful friends, including Andrew Marvell (English poet, 1621-1678), intervened. This is the uncertain period which produced Milton’s Paradise Lost. He went on to write his second epic, Paradise Regained, before his death in 1674. His legacy as a significant poet and polemicist, staunchly defending free speech and intellectual liberty, endures.

PARADISE LOST

THE FALL OF HUMANKIND FROM EDEN

Genre: epic poemReference edition: Milton, J. (2016) Paradise Lost. [Kindle]. Anboco: Amazon.1stedition: 1667 (in 10 books)Themes: divine nature and worlds, free will, knowledge, sin, good and evil, humankind, war