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Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes
Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes Author:John Milton John Milton prepared himself for many years for the creation of poetry that would rival the works of Homer and Vergil. He originally intended it to take the form of a national epic that would celebrate the triumph of Puritanism, but with the defeat of the Puritan Reformation, the blind and disillusioned poet turned to the Bible for his inspira... more »tion. Thus, out of his own tragic isolation, Milton created three of the greatest poems of religious imagination our language has known.« less