英国17和18世纪主要文学作品.pptVIP

Francis Bacon The Novum Organum (New Instrument) The New Atlantis Essays Paradise Lost An epic poem in blank verse by John Milton. Concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Miltons purpose, is to justify the ways of God to men. Its roots lie in Miltons earliest youth. Having gone totally blind, Milton wrote Paradise Lost entirely through dictation with the help of amanuenses and friends. Often ill, suffering from gout Suffering emotionally after the early death of his second wife an