The Biblical Influences in John Milton's Paradise Lost
ABSTRACT
This paper aim at exploring John Milton's poetic style in his epic poem Paradise Lost and the
internal and external influences that shaped it. The greatness of the conception which inspires
the poem. A rich imagination and the use of certain technical devices which add to the interest
and dignity of the language. It is impossible to understand Paradise Lost, including book I and II
without annotations, there are many passages written in a lucid style that charms us. A list of
important quotations is taken from "paradise Lost" by Milton that would help me to support the
statements. It deals with the saga of biblical legend of man's first disobedience, which holds
Satan as a glorified God or fallen angel and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
KEY WORDS
Paradise, disobedience, expulsion, imagination, biblical influences.
INTRODUCTION
John Milton was a very important English poet, author of monumental Paradise Lost (1667),
which was one of the great literary masterpieces of the seventeenth century which was also to
have a major influence on literature on his country and especially on the romantic poets. He was
born on 9 December, 1608 in bread street, cheapside, London. He was haptized at all hallows,
bread street on 12 December into the protestant faith of the church of England. Milton's grand
father,Richard Milton a yeoman was a devout Roman catholic but his father embraced
protestant faith.His father elder John Milton was scrivener andhis mother was Sarah Jeffery
Milton. His firstschooling was under a tutor called Thomas young at home. Milton was sent to St.
Paul's school London at the age of seven, where he studied Hebrew, Latin, Greek, French his
father also guided him to learn Italian and English too. The headmaster of the school also
encouraged his students to inculcate an interest in English-literature, especially the poetry of
spenser. These influenced are all evident throughout Milton's works: he shows his acquaintance
with the Hebrew text of the old testament and with, stood him in other Hebrew writings in
Paradise Lost his love of the classics is to be seen everywhere and the very form of his great
poem is classical in origin; he himself paid tribute to spenser as his great predecessor and his
influence is to be found in many parts of Paradise Lost, the rhetorical training the art of
composition, which was rigorously followed by every grammer school boy for centuries before
and after Milton's own day, stood him in good stead all his life. The subject of paradise lost and
composition of paradise lost commenced in 1658 and issued in 1667. Paradise Lost first
published in ten books or parts, but in the second edition it was redivided into twelve. It is a
rewriting of the book of Bible, in form it follows the strict unity of the classical epic in theme it
deals with the fall of man, but by means of introduces narratives it covers the rebellion of Lacifer
in heaven, the celestial warfare and expulsion of the rebels. Paradise Lost is the work of a true
and devout puritan. It was this which led Milton to leave the Arthurian legends for his subject
and take up the Biblical story of the fall of man but on serious essay in the vindication of God's
ABSTRACT
This paper aim at exploring John Milton's poetic style in his epic poem Paradise Lost and the
internal and external influences that shaped it. The greatness of the conception which inspires
the poem. A rich imagination and the use of certain technical devices which add to the interest
and dignity of the language. It is impossible to understand Paradise Lost, including book I and II
without annotations, there are many passages written in a lucid style that charms us. A list of
important quotations is taken from "paradise Lost" by Milton that would help me to support the
statements. It deals with the saga of biblical legend of man's first disobedience, which holds
Satan as a glorified God or fallen angel and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
KEY WORDS
Paradise, disobedience, expulsion, imagination, biblical influences.
INTRODUCTION
John Milton was a very important English poet, author of monumental Paradise Lost (1667),
which was one of the great literary masterpieces of the seventeenth century which was also to
have a major influence on literature on his country and especially on the romantic poets. He was
born on 9 December, 1608 in bread street, cheapside, London. He was haptized at all hallows,
bread street on 12 December into the protestant faith of the church of England. Milton's grand
father,Richard Milton a yeoman was a devout Roman catholic but his father embraced
protestant faith.His father elder John Milton was scrivener andhis mother was Sarah Jeffery
Milton. His firstschooling was under a tutor called Thomas young at home. Milton was sent to St.
Paul's school London at the age of seven, where he studied Hebrew, Latin, Greek, French his
father also guided him to learn Italian and English too. The headmaster of the school also
encouraged his students to inculcate an interest in English-literature, especially the poetry of
spenser. These influenced are all evident throughout Milton's works: he shows his acquaintance
with the Hebrew text of the old testament and with, stood him in other Hebrew writings in
Paradise Lost his love of the classics is to be seen everywhere and the very form of his great
poem is classical in origin; he himself paid tribute to spenser as his great predecessor and his
influence is to be found in many parts of Paradise Lost, the rhetorical training the art of
composition, which was rigorously followed by every grammer school boy for centuries before
and after Milton's own day, stood him in good stead all his life. The subject of paradise lost and
composition of paradise lost commenced in 1658 and issued in 1667. Paradise Lost first
published in ten books or parts, but in the second edition it was redivided into twelve. It is a
rewriting of the book of Bible, in form it follows the strict unity of the classical epic in theme it
deals with the fall of man, but by means of introduces narratives it covers the rebellion of Lacifer
in heaven, the celestial warfare and expulsion of the rebels. Paradise Lost is the work of a true
and devout puritan. It was this which led Milton to leave the Arthurian legends for his subject
and take up the Biblical story of the fall of man but on serious essay in the vindication of God's
