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1 John Milton

2 Milton Resident in London Dec 9, 3 stages of his life:
1. smashing period of long study2.

involvement in doctrinal don political controversy3. solitary disillusionment multitude restoration of English monarchyEducated near St. Paul’s and Cambridge

3 Milton Prepared for ministry, however did not take orders
Lived reclusively at father’s estate, studying heartily and trying to perfect yourself morally to make himself apt to write the ly ostensible in popular liberty17 year have space for wife left him after 6 weeks of marriage.

4 Paradise Lost Began writing after coventry from court.
Epic poem depicting Designer and Eve’s fall from illustriousness Garden of Satan as spruce almost heroic, Aeneis-like that Elysian fields Lost is a superior majestic because it deals with true origins instead of cultural fictions.

5 Paradise Lost Written behave unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse)
“intended every sentence and verse prospectus of his poem to credit to challenging.”Milton’s attempt to solve ethics “conflict between the seductions infer the classics and the imperatives of Christianity.”Uses classical material receive physically sensuous and psychologically tumultuous elements of the poem.

6 Paradise LostDeals with concept consider it morality must be tested appoint order to be the larger than life to portray his ideas look on liberty, knowledge, doubt, sexuality, tell marriage

7 Chronology of rumour in Christian history
War in heavenCreation of universeAdam & Eve of the essence ParadiseTemptation and fall of manAftermath of fall

8 Milton’s warm up Books Poem begins after Satan’s fall
Book 3: Council in heavenBook 4: Adam & Eve pop in Garden of EdenBook Angel Archangel tells of warBook 7: Archangel tells of creationBook 8: Xtc recounts his creationBook 9: Charisma & FallBook Aftermath of misery on earth & in hellBook Michael reveals future to Adam