Milton--Paradise lost
Landmarks of world literature
Paradise lost.
Landmarks of world literature.
The chronology of events in Paradise Lost -- Paradise Lost in Milton's career and age -- "Long choosing, and beginning late" -- Lycidas -- Writing in the English Revolution and the Restoration -- Milton's blindness -- Christian Doctrine and Milton's theological heresies -- Interpreting Paradise Lost -- "Say first what cause": Paradise Lost and beginnings -- "To raise / That Name": Paradise Lost and epic ambition -- voice of the poet -- Answerable styles -- Satan: daring ambition and heroic ideology -- Hell: geographical place and internal state -- God, providence, and free will -- Milton's Eden -- Adam and Eve and human sexuality -- material cosmos of Paradise Lost -- War in Heaven -- Creation -- tragedy of the Fall -- Postlapsarian history and the inner paradise -- literary after-life of paradise Lost -- Revisions from the Restoration to the Romantics.
