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Paradise Regained is a poem by English poet John Milton, first published in 1671. The volume in which it appeared also contained the poet's closet drama Samson Agonistes.Paradise Regained may be a poem by English poet Milton, first published in 1671. the quantity during which it appeared also contained the poet's drama Samson Agonistes. Paradise Regained is connected by name to his earlier and more famous heroic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes; indeed, its title, its use of poem, and its progression through Christian history recall the sooner work. However, this effort deals primarily with the temptation of Christ as recounted within the Gospel of Luke.Milton composed Paradise Regained at his cottage in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. Paradise Regained is four books long and comprises 2,065 lines; in contrast, Paradise Lost is twelve books long and comprises 10,565 lines. As such, Barbara K. Lewalski has labelled the work a "brief epic".Whereas Paradise Lost is ornate a la mode and ornamental in its verse, Paradise Regained is administered during a fairly plain style. Specifically, Milton reduces his use of simile and deploys an easier syntax in Paradise Regained than he does in Paradise Lost, and this is often according to Jesus's sublime plainness in his life and teachings (in the epic, he prefers Hebrew psalms to Greek poetry). Modern editors believe the stylistics of Paradise Regained evince Milton's poetic maturity. not is that the poet bent dazzle his readers with bombastic verse and lengthy epic similes. this is often to not say that the poem bears no affinities with Milton's earlier work, but scholars still accept as true with Northrop Frye's suggestion that Paradise Regained is "practically sui generis" in its poetic execution.
