Milton's Paradise Lost Milton's Paradise Lost has been praised since its edition as being the greatest English epic of all time, most stunningly in its author's realistic depiction of the fabled parents of humanity, Adam and Eve. ... She is called "nymphlike- and this is most definitely not the first time that Milton uses allusions to Greek and Roman mythology in the poem- such as calling her a "wood-nymph light,/ Oread or Dryad, or Delia's self - (IX, 386-387). ...

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