{"id":268,"date":"2018-10-24T06:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2018-11-28T04:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T04:30:23","slug":"paradise-lost-the-infernal-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/paradise-lost-the-infernal-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Lost \u2014 The Infernal Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 50px;\"><strong>\u201cTo proceed to a consideration of the merits of Paradise Lost,\u2026I shall try to explain at once the foundation of the interest belonging to the poem.\u2026In a word, the interest of the poem arises from the daring ambition and fierce passions of Satan.\u2026The two first books alone are like two massy pillars of solid gold.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 50px; text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014 William Hazlitt, <a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/poets-prose-writers\/the-satanic-school\/william-hazlitt-1778-1830\/lectures-on-the-english-poets-1818\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lectures on the English Poets<\/em><\/a> (1818)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/poets-prose-writers-2\/the-romantic-rehearsal\/john-milton-1608-1674\/paradise-lost-the-infernal-books\/book-i-of-paradise-lost\/\"><strong>Book I of <em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/poets-prose-writers-2\/the-romantic-rehearsal\/john-milton-1608-1674\/paradise-lost-the-infernal-books\/book-ii-of-paradise-lost\/\"><strong>Book II of <em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Romantic Reading of <em>Paradise Lost<\/em>\u2019s Infernal Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the 1802 Edition of Milton\u2019s <em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo proceed to a consideration of the merits of Paradise Lost,\u2026I shall try to explain at once the foundation of the interest belonging to the poem.\u2026In a word, the interest of the poem arises from the daring ambition and fierce passions of Satan.\u2026The two first books alone are like two massy pillars of solid gold.\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/paradise-lost-the-infernal-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paradise Lost \u2014 The Infernal Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theparadiselostlibrary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}