#PARADISE LOST FULL TEXT FULL#
There is a sort of curiosity that isn't short-circuited by our knowledge of how things did, in fact, turn out: Frederick Forsyth's The Day of the Jackal demonstrates that although we know full well that General de Gaulle was not assassinated, we are still eager to read about how he might have been.
Sad cure for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being. We can see and hear the plan taking shape, we can feel the surge of determination and energy it brings, and inevitably that makes us curious to know how they'll bring it off. to search the entire text of Paradise Lost for names, words and phrases. After their first struggle on the burning lake, the fallen angels hold a great debate in Pandaemonium, where the characters of their leaders are vividly revealed: Moloch, the fearless, savage warrior Belial, graceful, false, and hollow, counselling “ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth” 6 Mammon, intent only on gold and riches and then Beelzebub, “majestic though in ruin”, 7 who sums up all the preceding arguments and then points the way to another world altogether, “the happy seat / Of some new race called Man”, 8 and suggests that they make that the target of their vengeance. Milton asserts that this original sin brought death to human beings for the first time, causing us to lose our home in paradise until Jesus comes to restore. Be aware that this is a text from the first edition of 1667, having ten books instead of the second edition's twelve, and that line numbers do. I think it could hardly be told any better. Blake did not simply illustrate Paradise Lost, but engaged with the text and provided his interpretation of the epic poem. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was transcribed by Judy Boss in Omaha, Nebraska, and is provided by Renascence Editions with her kind permission.
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