13 Facts About Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton.

Paradise Lost wrote the epic poem while he was often ill, suffering from gout, and despite suffering emotionally after the early death of his second wife, Katherine Woodcock, in 1658, and the death of their infant daughter.

Paradise Lost declares to Eve that since she was made from his flesh, they are bound to one another – if she dies, he must die.

Paradise Lost tells them about how their scheme worked and Mankind has fallen, giving them complete dominion over Paradise.

Unlike the biblical Adam, before Milton's Adam leaves Paradise Lost he is given a glimpse of the future of mankind by the Archangel Michael, which includes stories from the Old and New Testaments.

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Paradise Lost's is generally happy, but longs for knowledge, specifically for self-knowledge.

Paradise Lost's had been looking at her reflection in a lake before being led invisibly to Adam.

Paradise Lost's is not easily persuaded to eat, but is hungry in body and in mind.

In Book XI of Paradise Lost, Adam tries to atone for his sins by offering to build altars to worship God.

Barbara Lewalski concludes that the theme of idolatry in Paradise Lost "is an exaggerated version of the idolatry Milton had long associated with the Stuart ideology of divine kingship.

Milton wrote Paradise Lost Regained and parts of Samson Agonistes in blank verse.

Paradise Lost was, moreover, a theologian of great independence of mind, and one who developed his talents within a society where the problem of divine justice was debated with particular intensity.

Some of the most notable illustrators of Paradise Lost included William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Henry Fuseli.