The four books of Paradise Regained are sparse in action and external description, and rich in dialogue primarily between Jesus and Satan.

That topic is the biblical Jesus’ Temptation in the Wilderness, recounted in the Synoptic Gospels (Matt. One of those amanuenses was the Quaker Thomas Ellwood, who recounts in his History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood (1714) that he responded to having read a manuscript version of Paradise Lost, “Thou hast said much here of paradise lost, but what hast thou to say of paradise found?” Ellwood may have provided Milton with some encouragement for a topic that he had long considered. Milton indicates his recognition the genre of brief epic, as Barbara Lewalski and others have noted, in his prose work The Reason of Church Government (1642): “that Epick form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model.” Having become fully blind in 1654, Milton dictated both Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, as well as the tragedy Samson Agonistes (published under the same book covers as Paradise Regained) to amanuenses, family-members, and friends who wrote down his spoken words. 'Paradise Regained' is a poetic and intriguing tale that follows along in the spirit of Milton's masterpiece 'Paradise Lost'.Paradise Regained (1671) is a brief epic of 2,070 blank verse lines that John Milton (1608–74) published just four years after the first publication of his epic Paradise Lost (1667 in 10 books 1674 in 12 books), an imaginative retelling of the biblical Genesis 1–3 and comprised of 10,565 blank verse lines. However, Jesus is not seduced by the promises of Satan and passes his test. In this work, a sequel to 'Paradise Lost', Satan tests Jesus in a similar way to Eve in the Garden of Eden. Following the fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden in Milton's 'Paradise Lost', Milton turns his attention to the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness by Satan in 'Paradise Regained'. Written in 1667, 'Paradise Lost' is a poetic and intriguing interpretation of ancient biblical legend. It is a retelling of the biblical story of the Genesis of man, of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and of how Eve when tempted by Satan disobeyed God and ate from the tree of knowledge.

Milton's 'Paradise Lost' is considered to be one of the most classic epic poems ever written. Contained in this volume are two great works by the English Poet John Milton, 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regained'.

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