Lecture 5 Metaphysical Poetry

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification.

• Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification.
• The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation ofAdam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Outstanding poet from the Restoration period,

• Outstanding poet from the Restoration period,
• Poet laureate
• heroic couplets
• poetic drama
• satiric poems
• Heroic Stanzas
• Absalom and Achitophel
• A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

Religious writer, the author of 60 books and tractates

• Religious writer, the author of 60 books and tractates
• Defence of Justification by
• Faith
• The Life and Death of Mr.
• Badman
• The Holy War
• The Pilgrim’s Progress (the first imaginative prose in the English literature)