Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism by John Milton, Scott Elledge

Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism

John Milton, Scott Elledge

546 pages first pub 1667 (editions)

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Concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men" and elucidate the con...

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