My aim is to do an essay to analyze Paradise Lost by the English poet John Milton. ... John Milton was born in London in 1608 at the height oh the Protestant Reformation in England. ... Milton was a mixed product of his time. ... Milton was considered to be an heretic. ... Milton did something similar since he wrote political and religious pamphlets fot the cause of puritanism he advocated, and in some of his works he denounces what he considered that was corrupt in the society he was living. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

John Milton was one of the greatest poets of his age and perhaps of all ages. He was undoubtedly an artist of acute sensibility, subtlety of mind and superb human insight which is quite evident in his poetic works. ... Milton's presents the theme at the very beginning. ... Like all great epics, Milton also begins his epic with an "invocation" to the Muse. ... Milton was also well aware of the fact that an epic poem cannot be composed without a moral. ...

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"I have sought for a joy without pain,/ For a solid without fluctuation..." (The Book of Urizen). How does Blake's poetry comment on Urizen's longings? The Urizenic ideology of immutability is what Blake seeks to subvert and destroy throughout his poetry. Urizen's longings epitomizes the tyr...

• Word Count: 2454
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• Grade Level: High School