![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A note on "The Verse" explains: "The measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin,-rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse, than else they would have expressed them. ![]() It was published in ten books in 1667 it was subsequently revised and redivided into twelve books for the "Second Edition" published in 1674. After a long interruption he re-commenced the poem in epic form, perhaps about 1657, and completed it by 1663 or 1665. Lines 32-41 of Book IV were composed about 1642, and were intended for the opening speech of this drama. 1] A drama on the Fall, entitled "Paradise Lost,'' was planned by Milton in 1640-42. ![]()
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