Help With Paradise Lost

[Majic]

I Have a very old Copy of Paradise lost book 1 and 2 plus pomes that i cant find out what issue or year as there is no copywright info it is binded in old paper that has text on the other side so i know it is very very old The cover has flowers and just says "Milton" in Gold the binding is faded so i can read nothing on it . If anybody can please Help.

[dwdean]

so your copy has only the first two books of PL?
that would mean that it ends when Satan leaves Hell?
Paradise Lost is a twelve book epic. surprising that your copy has only two books...

[dwdean]

pomes

poems?

[logophile]

so your copy has only the first two books of PL?
that would mean that it ends when Satan leaves Hell?
Paradise Lost is a twelve book epic. surprising that your copy has only two books...

I too was a little surprised at it not being included in its entirety. Especially if other poems are included. Seems a strange decision. According to Wikipedia it was first published in ten books and was subsequently redivided into 12 (which is interesting from a numerological point of view, since 10 is the number of divine perfect and 12 is the number of governmental perfection, 10 seeming far more appropriate in my view) but that would still leave this printing 8 books short.

[PeterL]

'paradies Lost was not copyrighted by the author, bcause that was before copyright law. All of Paradise Lost is available as a free download from Gutenburg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&sort_order=downloads&query=17