ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was first published in 1667. This copy was printed in 1668, with an adapted title page. In this ‘advent’rous’ poem (1.13), Milton announces his ambition to ‘justify the ways of God to men’ (1.26).

Detailed explanation-2: -John Milton’s Paradise Lost. John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost was first published in 1667. This copy was printed in 1668, with an adapted title page. In this ‘advent’rous’ poem (1.13), Milton announces his ambition to ‘justify the ways of God to men’ (1.26).

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

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