John Miltons Paradise Lost, Book Ix
by Folger Shakespeare Library
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John Miltons Paradise Lost, Book Ix
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Folger Shakespeare Library
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Entitled "Paradise lost. A poem in twelve books. The authour John Milton. The fourth edition, adorn'd with sculptures. Printed by Miles Flesher, for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge's-Head in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street, 1688." Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (much like Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions. Most of the poem was written while Milton was blind, and was transcribed for him. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Book XI Satan returns to the Garden of Eden the night after Raphael's departure. Satan's return comes eight days after he was caught and banished by Gabriel. He sneaks in over the wall, avoiding Gabriel and the other guards. After studying all the animals of the Garden, Satan considers what disguise he should assume, and chooses to become a snake.
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