![]() ![]() After his personal fall from grace and the failure of his republican cause this poem was intended to be his salvation from the damnation of ignominy. He naturally based a lot of his writing on his own life experiences with high level politics, strategy, and war his three marriages and their concomitant experiences with love and loss his republican, anti-monarchist ideas his blindness later in life his life as a fugitive from the law: his fall from power as a high level minister of government during Oliver Cromwell’s republican regime, to a hunted fugitive after the monarchists took power again after Cromwell’s death his burning desire to be famous and important. It does appear that he was also influenced by the content of Anglo Saxon poems and the plots of popular Chivalric romances. ![]() Milton, who wrote it, based his form of iambic pentameter verses upon those unrhymed ones of Shakespeare, and his poem’s structure and embellishments primarily on the King James Bible, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Vergil’s Aeneid. ![]() In Milton’s Day, much of North America was part of England, so we can claim him as one of our own if we like. It is also the latest of the four and closest to our own modern style of English. ![]() Paradise Lost is one of the Four Pillars of English along with the King James Bible, Shakespeare, and Chaucer. ![]()
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