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. Many scholars consider Paradise Lost to be one of the greatest poems in the English language.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Milton’s Paradise Lost. John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was first published in 1667.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. Many scholars consider Paradise Lost to be one of the greatest poems in the English language.

Detailed explanation-4: -Having gone blind in 1652, Milton wrote Paradise Lost entirely through dictation with the help of amanuenses and friends.

Detailed explanation-5: -When Milton began Paradise Lost in 1658, he was in mourning. It was a year of public and private grief, marked by the deaths of his second wife, memorialised in his beautiful, and of England’s Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, which precipitated the gradual disintegration of the republic.