![]() ![]() John Milton (1608 – 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. It deals with the subject of the temptation of Christ. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes. Paradise Regained is a poem by Milton, published in 1671. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men". The poem concerns the Biblical 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. It is considered by critics to be Milton's "major work", and the work helped to solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. ![]() Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). This carefully crafted ebook: “Paradise Lost + Paradise Regained (2 Unabridged Classics + Original Illustrations by Gustave Doré)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. ![]()
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