Claude Balls
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...alive, and he wrote? "Paradise Regained" after her death. Was it just a coincidence?
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The famous English poet, John Milton, wrote "Paradise Lost" while his wife was...
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Tess
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Hahahaha.
She was the one who lost and regained paradise.
have you read that book!?!?!
He was a misogynist and FULL of himself!
He decided he wanted to be like Homer and Virgil and write an epic. So he did, and told everyone it was an epic.
The Iliad and Odyssey started as oral tradition and evolved into well written epics. Virgil was commissioned by Caesar to write the Aeneid, and he thought that his work would be no where near the caliber of Homer's works. He was wrong.
Milton was the only one writing any kind of fiction at the time, so of course Paradise Lost caught on.
It SUCKED.
Story is ok, but his writing is NOTHING compared to the ancient classics. You can open up to any line in the Aeneid and spot all sorts of genius poetic devices.
Not so with Paradise Lost. Only a few decent metaphors in that book.
It wasn't even nearly complex enough to justify it's length.
I read one "book," because I had to do a paper on it, but the rest I browsed a couple pages and figured it out from Spark Notes.
With a good book that shouldn't be possible!
Sorry for ranting.
Milton blows.
She was the one who lost and regained paradise.
have you read that book!?!?!
He was a misogynist and FULL of himself!
He decided he wanted to be like Homer and Virgil and write an epic. So he did, and told everyone it was an epic.
The Iliad and Odyssey started as oral tradition and evolved into well written epics. Virgil was commissioned by Caesar to write the Aeneid, and he thought that his work would be no where near the caliber of Homer's works. He was wrong.
Milton was the only one writing any kind of fiction at the time, so of course Paradise Lost caught on.
It SUCKED.
Story is ok, but his writing is NOTHING compared to the ancient classics. You can open up to any line in the Aeneid and spot all sorts of genius poetic devices.
Not so with Paradise Lost. Only a few decent metaphors in that book.
It wasn't even nearly complex enough to justify it's length.
I read one "book," because I had to do a paper on it, but the rest I browsed a couple pages and figured it out from Spark Notes.
With a good book that shouldn't be possible!
Sorry for ranting.
Milton blows.
Eric Arthur Blair
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It may come as a surprise to you that I read this line in Reader's Digest in 1956. It's good to know that we honor tradition here.
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the stig
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he read the most books any man has ever read, 900,000
he knew 7 different languages
with all this he wrote Paradise Lost which i had to sparknote because yo it just had tooo many words i had no idea what meant
crazy guy even went blind cuz he read so much
he knew 7 different languages
with all this he wrote Paradise Lost which i had to sparknote because yo it just had tooo many words i had no idea what meant
crazy guy even went blind cuz he read so much