1. John Milton (1608-1674)
◦ Protestant: the meaning
of evil in a universe
created by a benevolent
God. (describes the fall
of Adam and
Eve)Paradise Lost
(1667)
Donne – Meditations
(1623-1624)
◦ “No Man is an Island”
William Blake completed two sets of water color illustrations to Paradise
Lost, the second of which, completed in 1808, is represented here.
Hinweis der Redaktion
William Blake and John Milton lived through two of the most tumultuous periods of European history, so perhaps it is not surprising that Blake would have been drawn to illustrate Milton's great epic. Blake completed two sets of water color illustrations to Paradise Lost , the second of which, completed in 1808, is represented here.