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Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.

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Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books.

By John Milton


Samuel Johnson famously declared that ‘Paradise Lost’ was not the greatest of all epic poems, only because it was not the first. John Dryden also recognized that Milton epic far outdistanced his own poetry, in itself great, as well as that of his contemporaries. In the centuries since, ‘Pa…

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