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Works of John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book 3

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Milton, John

Milton, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Paradise Lost: Book 3

(Lines 1-55) Book III begins with Milton's address to "holy light," holy
because it is, in Genesis, the first thing God created. It is, in fact, so
holy that St. John says "God is light." Milton has traveled, he says, through
the darkness of Hell and Chaos into the light of Heaven, where he feels God's
light even though his physical blindness is so complete that no light visits
him. Though he is blind, he still practices his poetic art, as Thamyris and
Homer, ancient poets, did. He mentions, also, two blind prophets of antiquity,
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