1804-5 Poetical Works of John Milton, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, The Mask of Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso.

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Scarce

Bound in full calf.

A collection of works by celebrated 17th-century English poet and academic, John Milton.

This collection is comprised of two works bound together, containing 'Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books' (1804), and 'Paradise Regain'd; Comus, a Mask; L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso' (1805). With an overall title page, and a title page for each separate work.

Illustrated with a frontispiece to the collected work, another frontispeice to 'Paradise Regain'd' and an illustrated title page to 'Paradise Lost'.

With a short Life of Milton and an index to the first work. 

'Paradise Lost' is an epic blank verse poem, concerning the biblical Fall of Man, with the temptation of Adam and Even, and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The poem is considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.

The sequel, 'Paradise Regain'd', is likewise a blank verse poem, though is much shorter than its predecessor, being described as a brief epic.