Paradise Lost

noun

1. an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.

Paradise Lost

1. (1667) An epic by John Milton . Its subject is the Fall of Man ; it also tells the stories of the rebellion and punishment of Satan and the creation of Adam and Eve . Milton declares that his aim in the poem is “ to justify the ways of God to men .”

Example Sentences

Susanna Clarke’s haunting, haunted Piranesi is one of the most astonishing books I’ve read in a very long time, sort of Narnia meets Paradise Lost meets Borges.

From Vox

Locke mentioned it in his Second Treatise on Government; Milton dreamed of it in Paradise Lost.

From The Daily Beast

Paradise Lost and War and Peace and The Man Without Qualities, and the last six volumes of Proust.

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What Thurstane felt he could only express by recalling random lines of the "Paradise Lost."

From Project Gutenberg

Milton, in ‘Paradise Lost,’ alludes to ‘the dreaded name of Demogorgon.’

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That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work, excellent as it is, to the Paradise Lost, we readily admit.

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Nor are all his poems equal: his Paradise Lost, his Comus, and a few others, shine out amidst some flat and insipid compositions.

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Milton is said to have corrected at Chalfont some of the sheets of the "Paradise Lost."

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