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19 de may. de 2024 · John Milton, English poet, pamphleteer, and historian, considered the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. He is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. Learn more about Milton’s life and works in this article.
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.
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century 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.
Paradise Lost: Book 1 (1674 version) By John Milton. OF Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit. Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast. Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man. Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top. Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire.
Milton’s major work, Paradise Lost , was first published in ten books in 1667, then slightly revised and restructured as twelve books for the second edition in 1674, which also includes prose arguments or summaries at the outset of each book.
The group, titled after a combination of each contributor's initials, wrote on antiprelatical matters, and Young encouraged Milton to write his first prose work, Of Reformation (1641), to aid in their cause. [2]
