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"Plant"
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Religion of Author:
"Independent"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Work title:
"Paradise Lost"
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Politics of Author:
"Radical or Classical Republicanism"
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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"Fruits of more pleasing savour, from thy seed / Sown with contrition in his heart, than those / Which, his own hand manuring, all the trees / Paradise could have produced."
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)
Date: 1667; 2nd ed. in 1674
"So from the root / Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves / More aerie, last the bright consummate floure / Spirits odorous breathes: flours and thir fruit / Mans nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd / To vital Spirits aspire, to animal, / To intellectual, give both life and s...
preview | full record— Milton, John (1608-1674)