Enlightenment · Europe · Culture

1667

Milton Publishes Paradise Lost

1667

John Milton, blind and out of political favor under Charles II, dictated to his daughters a ten-book epic on the fall of man in blank verse of surpassing grandeur. He sold it to a printer for five pounds. Paradise Lost would become, and remain, the greatest epic poem in English.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1666: Academy of Sciences Founded in Paris
After: May 2, 1668: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1664: Moliere's Tartuffe Banned
After: 1668: La Fontaine Publishes Fables

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Paradise Lost