Poetry from 1660 to 1780
Subtitle: Civil War, Restoration, Revolution (Blackwell Essential Literature)
Contributors: Duncan Wu (Editor); Robert, Jr. DeMaria (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780631229810
First sentence: This first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole Subject, Man's disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise wherein he was placed: Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, or rather Satan in the Serpent; who revolting from God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the command of God driven out of Heaven with all his Crew into the great Deep.