And here in the manuscript you can see Milton's earliest concept work for PARADISE LOST - here still conceived as a drama rather than an epic poem, with a cast of characters including Michael, Lucifer (a name he doesn't use for Satan in the finished work), Adam & Eve, Death, Faith, Hope, & Charity.
October 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
And here in the manuscript you can see Milton's earliest concept work for PARADISE LOST - here still conceived as a drama rather than an epic poem, with a cast of characters including Michael, Lucifer (a name he doesn't use for Satan in the finished work), Adam & Eve, Death, Faith, Hope, & Charity.
and finally, we can see Milton's OTHER great considered epic project, on the subject of the King Arthur cycle, giving England the national epic he thought it needed.
PL both rejects and claims to surpass such a need, in the final text referring to the idea contemptuously as "tilting furniture".
October 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
and finally, we can see Milton's OTHER great considered epic project, on the subject of the King Arthur cycle, giving England the national epic he thought it needed.
PL both rejects and claims to surpass such a need, in the final text referring to the idea contemptuously as "tilting furniture".