ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Paradise Lost, epic poem in blank verse, one of the late works by John Milton, originally issued in 10 books in 1667 and, with Books 7 and 10 each split into two parts, published in 12 books in the second edition of 1674.

Detailed explanation-2: -The best well-known work of John Milton (1608-1674), Paradise Lost. A Poem in Ten Books, was first published in London in 1667. In 1674, a new edition was published with some amendments and was divided into the twelve books we are most familiar with now.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Milton’s Paradise Lost. John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was first published in 1667.

Detailed explanation-4: -Michael leads Adam and Eve through the gate and they exit Paradise. They cry a few tears and then walk hand in hand into a new world. After expanding his ambitious epic through millennia, Milton ends the poem at the beginning of Fallen history.

Detailed explanation-5: -Paradise Lost is an epic poem (12 books, totalling more than 10, 500 lines) written in blank verse, telling the biblical tale of the Fall of Mankind – the moment when Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan to eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and God banished them from the Garden of Eden forever.