Paradise Lost: Is an Epic Poem

Introduction

This is a vast composition and an epic as dithyrambic, because it introduces us to a particular vision of the complex and divine creation, starting with the brief story of Genesis.

Discussion

Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608-1674) is the most important epic poem in English literature. Its 10,565 verses, divided into twelve books, like the Aeneid, one of its most transparent background, constitute a verbal Colossus, a convoluted monument at the crossroads of many influences: the Bible, the patristic Hebrew texts, mythology and Greco-Latin poetry-Homer, Ovid, Lucan, and, above all, Virgil, seiscentista the European theater, the ...