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: -Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse.

Detailed explanation-3: -On Tuesday 20 August 1667, the publisher Samuel Simmons made his way through the streets of London to Stationers’ Hall. There he paid his fee of six pence and had entered into the company’s register his right to print and publish the following work: ‘Paradise lost, A Poem in Tenne Bookes by J. M.’

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil’s Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification.