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Works of John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book 9

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

Milton, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Paradise Lost: Book 9

Beginning Of The Tragedy:

(Lines 1-47) Milton begins Book IX by mourning the fact that he can no
longer tell of pleasant discourse between God and man or angel and man. He
must turn now to tragic events: Adam's failure to be loyal to God and the
judgment God was forced to make upon him. His task is sad, but his theme is
quite as heroic as that of the Iliad, the Aeneid, or the Odyssey. Urania,
whom he had addressed in Book VII, he refers to here as the nightly visitor
who has given him inspiration ever since he decided to write his epic ...

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