Paradise Lost & the Seventeenth Century Reader

accept Adam angels argue argument assertion assume audience background battle in Heaven becomes begin beliefs body century Chaos Christ claim comparison conclusion contrast created creation creatures criticism Death discussed divine Doctrina earth effect elements Elizabethan English epic evidence evil fact fall feel follows force further given gives God's hand hath Heaven Hell helps heroic idea imply important insistence John kind less liberty lines London matter McColley means Milton mind nature never NOTES opinion Paradise Lost passage passions perhaps poem poet poetic poetry points possible present Professor Puritan qualities quoted reader reason reference Renaissance result Satan seems sense simile soul spirit Studies style suggest theory things thought tion tradition Treatise true universe values verse whole writing