ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Milton is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. Together with Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, it confirms Milton’s reputation as one of the greatest English poets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Well-known people who wrote epics were Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Edmund Spenser and Milton.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Milton was a 17th century historian, journalist and poet born on December 9th, 1608 in London, England. He was best known for his writing of Paradise Lost.

Detailed explanation-5: -Milton’s Paradise Lost is rarely read today. But this epic poem, 350 years old this month, remains a work of unparalleled imaginative genius that shapes English literature even now. In more than 10, 000 lines of blank verse, it tells the story of the war for heaven and of man’s expulsion from Eden.