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WORKS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book I of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book II of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book III of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Book IV of Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

BOOK \u00a0I \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole Subject, Man\u2019s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was plac\u2019t:<\/em> Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather<\/em> 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.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Which action past over, the Poem hastes into the midst of things, presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell,<\/em> describ\u2019d here, not in the Centre<\/em> (for Heaven and Earth may be suppos\u2019d as yet not made, certainly not yet accurst) but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call\u2019d<\/em> Chaos: Here<\/em> Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonisht, after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Order and Dignity lay by him; they confer of thir miserable fall.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0Satan awakens all his Legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded; They rise, thir Numbers, array of Battle, thir chief Leaders nam\u2019d, according to the Idols known afterwards in<\/em> Canaan and the Countries adjoining.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 To these<\/em> Satan directs his Speech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind of Creature to be created, according to an ancient Prophecy or report in Heaven;<\/em> for that Angels were long before this visible Creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers.\u00a0\u00a0 To find out the truth of this Prophecy, and what to determine thereon he refers to a full Council.\u00a0\u00a0 What his Associates thence attempt.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Pandemonium the Palace of<\/em> Satan rises, suddenly built out of the Deep: The infernal Peers there sit in Council.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book I of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

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Satan Rising from the Burning Lake<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Engraver<\/strong>
\nFrancesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Stothard
\nDate<\/strong>
\n1792
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching with engraving and stipple
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 24.7 cm
\nWidth: 38.1 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nBritish Museum (2)<\/a>
\nBritish Museum (3)<\/a>
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cForthwith upright he rears from off the Pool
\nHis mighty Stature\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book I, 221\u201322)<\/p>\n

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Satan Summoning His Legions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1790
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nOil on canvas
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 33.02 cm
\nWidth: 26.67 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nIris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University<\/a>
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026on the Beach
\nOf that inflamed Sea, he stood and call\u2019d
\nHis Legions, Angel Forms, who lay intrans\u2019t
\nThick as Autumnal Leaves that strow the Brooks
\nIn Vallombrosa<\/em>.\u2026
\nHe call\u2019d so loud, that all the hollow Deep
\nOf Hell resounded.\u2026
\nAwake, arise, or be for ever fall\u2019n.
\nThey heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book I, 299\u2013303, 314\u201315, 330\u201331)<\/p>\n

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BOOK \u00a0II \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Consultation begun,<\/em> Satan debates whether another Battle be to be hazarded for the recovery of Heaven: some advise it, others dissuade: A third proposal is preferr\u2019d, mention\u2019d before by<\/em> Satan, to search the truth of that Prophecy or Tradition in Heaven concerning another world, and another kind of creature equal or not much inferior to themselves, about this time to be created: Thir doubt who shall be sent on this difficult search:<\/em> Satan thir chief undertakes alone the voyage, is honor\u2019d and applauded.\u00a0\u00a0 The Council thus ended, the rest betake them several ways and to several employments, as thir inclinations lead them, to entertain the time till<\/em> Satan return.\u00a0\u00a0 He passes on his Journey to Hell Gates, finds them shut, and who sat there to guard them, by whom at length they are op\u2019n\u2019d, and discover to him the great Gulf between Hell and Heaven; with what difficulty he passes through, directed by<\/em> Chaos, the Power of that place, to the sight of this new World which he sought.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book II of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Council in Pandemonium<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Engraver<\/strong>
\nFrancesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Stothard
\nDate<\/strong>
\n1792
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching with engraving and stipple
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 24.8 cm
\nWidth: 38.4 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nBritish Museum (2)<\/a>
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cPowers and Dominions, Deities of Heav\u2019n,
\nFor since no deep within her gulf can hold
\nImmortal vigor, though opprest and fall\u2019n,
\nI give not Heav\u2019n for lost.\u00a0\u00a0 From this descent
\nCelestial Virtues rising, will appear
\nMore glorious and more dread than from no fall
\nAnd trust themselves to fear no second fate\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 11\u201317)<\/p>\n

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Sin and Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Engraver<\/strong>
\nFrancesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Stothard
\nDate<\/strong>
\n1792
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching with engraving and stipple
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 24.8 cm
\nWidth: 38.4 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201c\u2026Before the Gates there sat
\nOn either side a formidable shape;
\nThe one seem\u2019d Woman to the waist, and fair,
\nBut ended foul in many a scaly fold
\nVoluminous and vast, a Serpent arm\u2019d
\nWith mortal sting.\u2026
\n\u2026The other shape,
\nIf shape it might be call\u2019d that shape had none
\nDistinguishable in member, joint, or limb,
\nOr substance might be call\u2019d that shadow seem\u2019d,
\nFor each seem\u2019d either; black it stood as Night,
\nFierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,
\nAnd shook a dreadful Dart; what seem\u2019d his head
\nThe likeness of a Kingly Crown had on.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 648\u201353, 666\u201373)<\/p>\n

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Preparatory study for Satan, Sin and Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen and black ink
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 23.36 cm
\nWidth: 22.86 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake the grisly terror, and in shape,
\nSo speaking and so threat\u2019ning, grew tenfold
\nMore dreadful and deform: on th\u2019 other side
\nIncens\u2019t with indignation Satan<\/em> stood
\nUnterrifi\u2019d, and like a Comet burn\u2019d.\u2026
\nSo frown\u2019d the mighty Combatants, that Hell
\nGrew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood;
\nFor never but once more was either like
\nTo meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
\nHad been achiev\u2019d, whereof all Hell had rung,
\nHad not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
\nFast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
\nRis\u2019n, and with hideous outcry rush\u2019d between.
\nO Father, what intends thy hand, she cri\u2019d,
\nAgainst thy only Son? What fury O Son,
\nPossesses thee to bend that mortal Dart
\nAgainst thy Father\u2019s head?\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 704\u201308, 719\u201330)<\/p>\n

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Preparatory study for Satan, Sin and Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\nca. 1792
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nPen on paper
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 23.36 cm
\nWidth: 22.86 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nVictoria and Albert Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cSo spake the grisly terror, and in shape,
\nSo speaking and so threat\u2019ning, grew tenfold
\nMore dreadful and deform: on th\u2019 other side
\nIncens\u2019t with indignation Satan<\/em> stood
\nUnterrifi\u2019d, and like a Comet burn\u2019d.\u2026
\nSo frown\u2019d the mighty Combatants, that Hell
\nGrew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood;
\nFor never but once more was either like
\nTo meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
\nHad been achiev\u2019d, whereof all Hell had rung,
\nHad not the Snaky Sorceress that sat
\nFast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key,
\nRis\u2019n, and with hideous outcry rush\u2019d between.
\nO Father, what intends thy hand, she cri\u2019d,
\nAgainst thy only Son? What fury O Son,
\nPossesses thee to bend that mortal Dart
\nAgainst thy Father\u2019s head?\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 704\u201308, 719\u201330)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Satan flying towards the World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Engraver<\/strong>
\nFrancesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Stothard
\nDate<\/strong>
\n1793
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching with engraving and stipple
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 24.6 cm
\nWidth: 38.7 cm
\nLocations<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nBritish Museum (2)<\/a>
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cBut now at last the sacred influence
\nOf light appears, and from the walls of Heav\u2019n
\nShoots far into the bosom of dim Night
\nA glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins
\nHer fardest verge, and Chaos<\/em> to retire
\nAs from her outmost works a brok\u2019n foe
\nWith tumult less and with less hostile din,
\nThat Satan<\/em> with less toil, and now with ease
\nWafts on the calmer wave by dubious light
\nAnd like a weather-beaten Vessel holds
\nGladly the Port, though Shrouds and Tackle torn;
\nOr in the emptier waste, resembling Air,
\nWeighs his spread wings, at leisure to behold
\nFar off th\u2019 Empyreal Heav\u2019n, extended wide
\nIn circuit, undetermin\u2019d square or round,
\nWith Opal Tow\u2019rs and Battlements adorn\u2019d
\nOf living Sapphire, once his native Seat;
\nAnd fast by hanging in a golden Chain
\nThis pendant world, in bigness as a Star
\nOf smallest Magnitude close by the Moon.
\nThither full fraught with mischievous revenge,
\nAccurst, and in a cursed hour he hies.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book II, 1034\u201355)<\/p>\n

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BOOK \u00a0III \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGod sitting on his Throne sees<\/em> Satan flying towards this world, then newly created; shows him to the Son who sat at his right hand; foretells the success of<\/em> Satan in perverting mankind; clears his own Justice and Wisdom from all imputation, having created Man free and able enough to have withstood his Tempter; yet declares his purpose of grace towards him, in regard he fell not of his own malice, as did<\/em> Satan, but by him seduc\u2019t. The Son of God renders praises to his Father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards Man; but God again declares, that Grace cannot be extended towards Man without the satisfaction of divine Justice; Man hath offended the majesty of God by aspiring to Godhead, and therefore with all his Progeny devoted to death must die, unless some one can be found sufficient to answer for his offense, and undergo his Punishment.\u00a0\u00a0 The Son of God freely offers himself a Ransom for Man: the Father accepts him, ordains his incarnation, pronounces his exaltation above all Names in Heaven and Earth; commands all the Angels to adore him; they obey, and hymning to thir Harps in full Choir, celebrate the Father and the Son.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile<\/em> Satan alights upon the bare convex of this World\u2019s outermost Orb; where wand\u2019ring he first finds a place since call\u2019d The Limbo of Vanity; what persons and things fly up thither; thence comes to the Gate of Heaven, describ\u2019d ascending by stairs, and the waters above the Firmament that flow about it: His passage thence to the Orb of the Sun; he finds there<\/em> Uriel the Regent of that Orb, but first changes himself into the shape of a meaner Angel; and pretending a zealous desire to behold the new Creation and Man whom God had plac\u2019t there, inquires of him the place of his habitation, and is directed; alights first on Mount<\/em> Niphates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book III of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

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Uriel and Satan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Engraver<\/strong>
\nFrancesco Bartolozzi, after Thomas Stothard
\nDate<\/strong>
\n1795
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nStipple and etching
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 48 cm
\nWidth: 38.3 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cThat spot to which I point is Paradise,<\/em>
\nAdam\u2019s<\/em> abode, those lofty shades his Bow\u2019r.
\nThy way thou canst not miss, me mine requires.
\nThus said, he turn\u2019d, and Satan<\/em> bowing low,
\nAs to superior Spirits is wont in Heav\u2019n,
\nWhere honor due and reverence none neglects,
\nTook leave, and toward the coast of Earth beneath,
\nDown from th\u2019 Ecliptic, sped with hop\u2019d success,
\nThrows his steep flight in many an Aery wheel,
\nNor stay\u2019d, till on Niphates\u2019<\/em> top he lights.\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book III, 733\u201342)<\/p>\n

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BOOK \u00a0IV \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST<\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSatan now in prospect of<\/em> Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despair; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and situation is described, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a Cormorant on the Tree of Life, as highest in the Garden to look about him.\u00a0\u00a0 The Garden describ\u2019d;<\/em> Satan\u2019s first sight of<\/em> Adam and<\/em> Eve; his wonder at thir excellent form and happy state, but with resolution to work thir fall; overhears thir discourse, thence gathers that the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden them to eat of, under penalty of death; and thereon intends to found his Temptation, by seducing them to transgress: then leaves them a while, to know further of thir state by some other means.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile<\/em> Uriel descending on a Sun-beam warns<\/em> Gabriel, who had in charge the Gate of Paradise, that some evil spirit had escap\u2019d the Deep, and past at Noon by his Sphere in the shape of a good Angel down to Paradise, discovered after by his furious gestures in the Mount.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Gabriel promises to find him ere morning.\u00a0\u00a0 Night coming on,<\/em> Adam and<\/em> Eve discourse of going to thir rest: thir Bower describ\u2019d; thir Evening worship.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Gabriel drawing forth his Bands of Night-watch to walk the round of Paradise, appoints two strong Angels to<\/em> Adam\u2019s Bower, lest the evil spirit should be there doing some harm to<\/em> Adam or<\/em> Eve sleeping; there they find him at the ear of<\/em> Eve, tempting her in a dream, and bring him, though unwilling, to<\/em> Gabriel; by whom question\u2019d, he scornfully answers, prepares resistance, but hinder\u2019d by a Sign from Heaven, flies out of Paradise.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Milton, \u201cThe Argument,\u201d Book IV of Paradise Lost<\/em> (1674 edition)<\/p>\n

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[Satan, Ithuriel and Zephon<\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Engraver<\/strong>
\n?, after Thomas Stothard
\nDat<\/strong>e
\n1816
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching and engraving, printed on chine coll\u00e9
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 16.5 cm
\nWidth: 10.2 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London
\nPL<\/em> Lines<\/strong>
\n\u201cHim thus intent Ithuriel<\/em> with his Spear
\nTouch\u2019d lightly; for no falsehood can endure
\nTouch of Celestial temper, but returns
\nOf fore to its own likeness: up he starts
\nDiscover\u2019d and surpris\u2019d. As when a spark
\nLights on a heap of nitrous Powder, laid
\nFit for the Tun some Magazin to store
\nAgainst a rumor\u2019d War, the Smutty grain
\nWith sudden blaze diffus\u2019d, inflames the Air:
\nSo started up in his own shape the Fiend.
\nBack stepp\u2019d those two fair Angels half amaz\u2019d
\nSo sudden to behold the grisly King\u2026\u201d
\n(Paradise Lost<\/em>, Book IV, 810\u201321)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

MISCELLANEOUS\u00a0 MILTONIC\u00a0 ILLUSTRATIONS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Satan (a god flying away)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Engraver<\/strong>
\nWilliam Blake, after Thomas Stothard
\nDate<\/strong>
\n1790
\nMedium<\/strong>
\nEtching and engraving
\nDimensions<\/strong>
\nHeight: 14.5 cm
\nWidth: 10.3 cm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nBritish Museum<\/a>, London<\/p>\n

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WORKS Book I of Paradise Lost Book II of Paradise Lost Book III of Paradise Lost Book IV of Paradise Lost Miscellaneous   BOOK \u00a0I \u00a0OF \u00a0PARADISE \u00a0LOST \u201cThis first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole Subject, Man\u2019s disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was plac\u2019t: Then touches the prime cause… <\/p>\n

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