Paradise Lost

John Milton · 1667 CE · Poem · Judeo-Christian · Enlightenment

It opens in hell, where Satan and the rebel angels come to after their defeat and resolve to strike at God through the new world just made. The poem then turns to Eden, to Adam and Eve at work and in conversation with an archangel, and to the serpent waiting in the garden. The grandest retelling of humanity's first disobedience.

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Lineage

• retells ↑ Genesis
  Anonymous · c. 550 BCE · Scripture
• influenced by ↑ The Aeneid
  Virgil · 19 BCE · Poem
• influenced by ↑ The Faerie Queene
  Edmund Spenser · 1590 CE · Poem
• ↓ Frankenstein
  Mary Shelley · 1818 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Prometheus Unbound
  Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1820 CE · Poem — influenced by this
• ↓ Northern Lights
  Philip Pullman · 1995 CE · Novel — responds to this
• ↓ The Prelude
  William Wordsworth · 1850 CE · Poem — influenced by this
• ↓ Hyperion
  John Keats · 1820 CE · Poem — influenced by this
• ↓ Cain
  Lord Byron · 1821 CE · Play — influenced by this
• ↓ In Dubious Battle
  John Steinbeck · 1936 CE · Novel — takes its title from this
• ↓ Paradise Regained
  John Milton · 1671 CE · Poem — continues this
• ↓ Happy Days
  Samuel Beckett · 1961 CE · Play — alludes to this
• ↓ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  William Blake · 1790 CE · Poem — responds to this
• ↓ The Book of Urizen
  William Blake · 1794 CE · Poem — responds to this
• ↓ Milton: A Poem
  William Blake · 1810 CE · Poem — responds to this

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Genesis
  Anonymous · c. 550 BCE · Scripture

  57% · 13 shared
  EpicLoss of InnocenceGood vs EvilTemptationCreatorInnocentThe Fall / DescentThe GardenFirevs Fate / Godsvs SelfMythicJudeo-Christian
• Prometheus Bound
  Aeschylus · c. 460 BCE · Play

  50% · 12 shared
  TragedyAmbition & HubrisFreedom vs FateRebel / OutlawCreatorTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)FireLight & Darkvs Fate / GodsTragicMythic
• Daedalus and Icarus
  Greek myth · c. 600 BCE · Myth / Legend

  45% · 10 shared
  TragedyAmbition & HubrisLoss of InnocenceFreedom vs FateCreatorTragic ReversalThe Fall / Descentvs SelfTragicMythic
• The Death of Baldr
  Norse myth · c. 1200 CE · Myth / Legend

  41% · 9 shared
  EpicTragedyLoss of InnocenceFreedom vs FateInnocentTragic ReversalLight & Darkvs Fate / GodsMythic
• Rostam and Sohrab
  Ferdowsi · c. 1010 CE · Poem

  39% · 11 shared
  PoemEpicTragedyLoss of InnocenceFreedom vs FateTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)vs Fate / GodsEpicTragicMythic
• Oedipus Rex
  Sophocles · c. 429 BCE · Play

  39% · 10 shared
  TragedyAmbition & HubrisFreedom vs FateTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)Light & Darkvs Fate / Godsvs SelfTragicMythic