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Format of paradise lost is pdf and file size of this file is 921. Major english writers 1 john miltons paradise lost. Following the epic tradition, milton invokes a heavenly muse to help him tell the tale. Lodgd in bethabara where john baptizd, musing and much revolving in his brest, 185 how best the mighty work he might begin of saviour to mankind, and which way first.
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That spot to which i point is paradise, adams abode, those loftie shades his bowre. It focuses on the idea of hunger, but in a literal and in a spiritual sense. The muse he calls upon is the same one who inspired moses to write part of the bible, he claims. He invokes the classical muse, urania, but also refers to her as the heavnly muse, implying the christian nature of this work. Teach your students to analyze literature like litcharts does.
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