![]() Throughout the 1640s, civil war ravaged England as parliamentary and royalist armies battled for control of the country, a struggle that ended when the king, Charles 1, was publicly beheaded in Whitehall, London, in January 1649. The poem dramatizes Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Paradise as a result of the War in Heaven between Satan and God.Įvents in History at the Time the Poem Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Poem Was Writtenīorn in 1608 in London, John Milton forged a career that reflects the turmoil of English political, social, and religious life in the seventeenth century. An epic poem in blank verse set at the beginning of time in Heaven, Chaos (a state of turbulence where matter is in flux), Hell (a place of imprisonment at the bottom of Chaos), and earthly Paradise (whose center is the Garden of Eden) published in 1667 as 10 books, republished in 1674 as 12 books. ![]()
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