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Re: Paradise Lost
We find the reference to ''Pandaemonium'' here: Mean while the winged Haralds by command Of Sovran power, with awful Ceremony And Trumpets sound throughout the Host proclaim A solemn Councel forthwith to be held At PANDAEMONIUM, the high Capital Of Satan and his Peers (...) ''Wherefore with thee / Came not all hell broke loose?'' (Book IV, lines ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 11, 2008
Paradise Lost
John Milton had a large body of work, but his most famous is naturally Paradise Lost. Upon looking for online texts of it, I found a PDF of the 1667 first edition (in ten volumes) here. Apparently the same ten-volume text is found here online at Literature.org. We owe several famous neologisms (e.g., ''Pandemonium''), colorful phrases (''has all ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 10, 2008