down at least since Homer, and the works of Virgil, Dante Alighieri and John Milton would be unlikely to have survived without being written down. The first epics are known as primary, or original, epics. Epics that attempt to imitate these like Virgil's Aeneid and Milton's Paradise Lost ...
16. John Milton – Paradise Lost (1667) Colloquially known as the great Protestant Epic, Milton retells both the story of the fall of Lucifer (Satan) in heaven and The fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The onset of blindness didn’t stop him from justifying “the ways of ...
(The full, redundant title of the book—The Epic of Clair: An Epic Poem—conveys what my middle-aged memory recalls as the naive and pretentious nobility of the teenage mind.) “Rosy-fingered Dawn” even shows up, literally, as a wealthy, boy-crazy teen with her hands in “a bag / ...
John Milton - Poet, Paradise Lost, Epic: Abandoning his earlier plan to compose an epic on Arthur, Milton instead turned to biblical subject matter and to a Christian idea of heroism. In Paradise Lost—first published in 10 books in 1667 and then in 12 b