![]() ![]() Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit Pandemonium, the palace of Satan, rises, suddenly built out of the deep the infernal peers there sit in council. To find out the truth of this prophesy, and what to determine thereon, he refers to a full council what his associates thence attempt. To these Satan directs his speech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining heaven, but tells them lastly of a new world and new kind of creature to be created, according to an ancient prophesy or report in heaven for that angels were long before this visible creation, was the opinion of many ancient fathers. They rise their numbers, array of battle, their chief leaders named, according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the countries adjoining. Satan awakens all his legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded. Here Satan with his angels lying on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonished, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion calls up him who, next in order and dignity, lay by him they confer of their miserable fall. Which action past over, the poem hastes into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his angels now fallen into hell-described here, not in the center (for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made, certainly not yet accursed) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest called chaos. This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man’s disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed then touches the prime cause of his fall, the serpent, or rather Satan in the serpent, who, revolting from God and drawing to his side many legions of angels, was by the command of God driven out of heaven with all his crew into the great deep. This edition includes a biographical afterword. ![]() The temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their subsequent fall from innocence forms the other major narrative arc in “Paradise Lost.” As described in the work by Milton his purpose in writing this epic masterpiece was to “justify the ways of God to men.” Milton’s work is one of sublime and extraordinary beauty which has inspired readers and been analyzed by critics ever since its original publication in 1667. Lucifer is cast out of Heaven and into Hell by God for his betrayal. First depicted in Revelation, Milton portrays the angel Lucifer’s denial of God’s authority over him and the failed rebellion that he leads as a consequence of this belief. A classic retelling of Biblical legend, the poem relates the stories of the war in heaven, the fall of man, and the temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. English poet John Milton’s 17th century epic poem, “Paradise Lost,” is the work for which he is best known and which would solidify his reputation as one of the greatest poets of all time. ![]()
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