Paradise Lost- Pandaemonium
A blog dedicated to the epic poem by John Milton.
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→ May 2012 Gustave Dore.
→ May 2012 The Woman, the Man and the Serpent
→ May 2012 ancientwoolunraveller: In the Secret History by Donna Tartt.
→ May 2012 mondonoir: John Milton Early notes on Paradise lost as a five-act drama, c. 1640 Facsimile of the manuscript of Milton’s minor poems (Cambridge University Press, 1899). Ee.b.3-4, p.38.
→ May 2012 rolandscapes: Satan Watching the Angels Ascend Into Heaven  John Martin mezzotint from Paradise Lost
→ May 2012 rolandscapes: The Bridge Over Chaos  John Martin mezzotint from Paradise Lost
→ May 2012 John Milton, Paradise Lost; Book I (1667)
→ May 2012
Just bought a nerdy goodbye present for my English teacher.
→ Apr 2012 “He sacrificed his sight, and then he remembered his first desire, that of being a poet,” Jorge Luis Borges wrote of Milton in a lecture centuries later. Milton started to lose his eyesight in his early thirties, he was entirely blind by the age of 43. He wrote ‘Paradise Lost’ blind, mainly by dictating it to his daughters who wrote down his words.
→ Apr 2012
Just finished Paradise Lost Book 2…

booksatruestory:

And I have to say that the little conclave meeting of Demons about what to do now that we are in Hell was much more civil than any political debate that I’ve ever heard.


Hahaha, YES.