Reception
In this novel, a famous Creature finds a copy of Paradise Lost in a bag in the woods, reads it, and compares his own experiences to that of both Adam and Satan.
What was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
This was Milton's birthday.
What is December 9, 1608.
This is the first line of Paradise Lost.
What is "Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit"?
This was Milton's first major work.
What is "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"?
What is fall?
This economist and political theorist wrote that “Milton produced Paradise Lost as a silkworm produces silk, as the activation of his own nature” and distinguished that kind of productivity from that of "the literary proletarian … who produces books … at the behest of his publisher..." like a productive factory worker.
Who was Karl Marx?
This was the university Milton attended.
What is Cambridge?
He was a famous astronomer and the only contemporary of Milton's to appear by name in Paradise Lost.
Who is Galileo?
Satan offered Jesus access to these two cities.
What are Athens and Rome?
"He knew / Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. / He must not float upon his wat'ry bier / Unwept..."
Who is Lycidas (aka Edward King)?
This author of a popular young adult series borrowed the series title, His Dark Materials, from Paradise Lost.
Who is Phillip Pullman
Milton's father practiced this profession.
He was a famously loyal angel, who was alone in leaving Satan's rebellious ranks after they had decamped to the north part of heaven.
Who was Abdiel?
Milton's Maske (aka Comus) was "presented at" this castle.
What is Ludlow?
"This is the month, and this the happy morn, / Wherein the son of Heav'n's eternal King / [...] Our great redemption from above did bring..."
What is December 25?
He thought Milton was "a true poet and of the devil's party without knowing it."
Who was William Blake?
This was the age and/or name of Milton's first wife.
Who was Mary Powell, aged 17.
This is the last line of Paradise Lost.
What is "through Eden took their solitary way."?
These were Samson's three visitors.
Who were Manoa, Dalila, and Harapha?
"... the priest / Was not behind, but ever at [her] ear, / Preaching how meritorious with the gods / It would be to ensnare an irreligious / Dishonorer of Dagon."
Who was Dalila?
This militant civil rights activist read Paradise Lost in prison in the 1960s and determined that "Milton and Mr. Elijah Muhammad were actually saying the same thing.”
Who was Malcolm X?
This was the year in which Milton supervised the publication of the second edition of Paradise Lost, and in which he died.
What was 1674?
This is the number of days it took the rebellious angels to fall from heaven to hell.
She is known only as "the woman of Timna."
Who was Samson's first wife?
What is the universe?