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'''''Paradise Lost''''' is an epic poem by [[John Milton]], originally published in 1667. It describes the fall of man in 12 books and was followed by a ''Paradise Regained'' in 1671 which described the temptations of [[Christ]]. Many contemporary scholars consider it the greatest modern epic and a valuable treatise on the nature of mankind as a faulted being.
'''''Paradise Lost''''' is an epic poem by [[John Milton]], originally published in 1667. It describes the fall of man in 12 books and was followed by a ''Paradise Regained'' in 1671 which described the temptations of [[Christ]]. Many contemporary scholars consider it the greatest modern epic and a valuable treatise on the nature of mankind as a faulted being.
==External links==
== Quotations ==
:Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
:Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
:Brought death into the world, and all our woe.... (I.1-3)
:And justify the ways of God to men. (I.26)
:The mind is its own place, and in itself
:Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (I.254-255)
:Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (I.263)
:All hell broke loose. (IV.918)
:Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
:Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe
:That all was lost. (IX.782-84)
:Some natural tears they dropp’d, but wip’d them soon;
:The world was all before them, where to choose
:Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
:They hand in hand, with wand’ring steps and slow,
:Through Eden took their solitary way. (XII.645-49)
== External links ==
*[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/intro/index.shtml ''Paradise Lost'']
*[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/intro/index.shtml ''Paradise Lost'']