In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale. On each hand the flamesĭriven backward slope their pointing spires, and, rolled
Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance pouredįorthwith upright he rears from off the pool How all his malice served but to bring forth
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought Left him at large to his own dark designs, Had risen or heaved his head, but that the will
So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay,Ĭhained on the burning lake, nor even thence Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Forthwith Upright He Rears from off the Pool His Mighty Stature (Book 1, 221-222) (1866), engraving for ‘Paradise Lost’, John Milton, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, further details not known. Which action passed over, the poem hastens into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell, described here, not in the Centre, (for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made, certainly not yet accursed,) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest called Chaos: here Satan, with his Angels lying on the burning lake, thunder-struck and astonished, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him they confer of their miserable fall. Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky. Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud, He trusted to have equalled the Most High, Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host The mother of mankind, what time his pride Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived Gustave Doré (1832–1883), Him the Almighty Power Hurled Headlong Flaming from the Ethereal Sky (Book 1, 44-45) (1866), engraving for ‘Paradise Lost’, John Milton, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, further details not known. This First Book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject, Man’s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed: then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather Satan in the serpent who revolting from God, and drawing to his side many legions of Angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven, with all his crew, into the great Deep. Milton is a superb wordsmith, and I have only adjusted a few of his spellings to their modern forms. Those given in verse are taken from the body of the poem. Excerpts given as prose are from Milton’s own summaries at the start of each book. and A.S.W.Rather than attempt my own summary of John Milton’s poem, I give selected excerpts from his original, with my comments given, where necessary, in italics. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Reproduction of an etching by Charles Courtry, (French, 1846–1897) Copied after a painting by Mihály von Munkácsy, (Hungarian, 1844–1900) Milton Dictating "Paradise Lost" Phototypic reproduction of an etching by Courtry from the painting by Munkácsy., (The Original Painting in the Lenox Gallery, New York)
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