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The Archangel Raphael with Adam and Eve (Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost"), William Blake (1808). Raphael is an archangel who is sent by God to Eden in order to strengthen Adam and Eve against Satan. He tells a heroic tale about the War in Heaven that takes up most of Book 6 of Paradise Lost. Ultimately, the story told by Raphael, in ...
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.
The libretto for John Christopher Smith's oratorio Paradise Lost (1760) was by Benjamin Stillingfleet after Milton.; Paradise Lost was, apart from straight quotations of biblical texts, the basis on which the libretto for Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Schöpfung (The Creation, 1798) was built, by, among others, Baron van Swieten.
THE READING LIST: Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes Claire Allfree
One of the most notable examples of the Paradise of Fools is found in Book 3 of John Milton's Paradise Lost, where Milton, in the narrative of Satan's journey to Earth, reserves a space for future fools (Milton also calls it the "Limbo of Vanity"), specifically Catholic clergy and "fleeting wits". [2]
A Preface to Paradise Lost is one of C. S. Lewis's most famous scholarly works. [1] The book had its genesis in Lewis's Ballard Matthews Lectures, [2] which he delivered at the University College of North Wales in 1941. [2] It discusses the epic poem Paradise Lost, by John Milton. [3]