Paratext: On Paradise Lost on pages vii and viii

Paratext: On Paradise Lost on pages vii and viii

Epic Poetry

This poem by Andrew Marvell appears after the section on John Milton’s life and right before the first book. The poem reconstructs the transformation of Marvell’s original distrust of the text to pure reverence after his first read through of Paradise Lost. The poem ends with a compliment to the poem’s use of blank verse.

John Milton

Paradise Lost, A Poem, In Twelve Books, pages vii and viii

Timothy Bedlington

1820

Sara Katschka

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