John Milton published
Paradise Lost, written in 12 books in 1667. Blind and impoverished, he sold his copyright for
Paradise Lost on April 27, 1667 to Samuel Simmons, a London Bookseller, for a paltry £5, plus another £5 after three additions of 1500 copies had been sold.
Paradise Lost was the first great poem written in blank verse. Milton wrote in the preface: "The troublesome and modern bondage of Rhyming."
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Title page of Paradise Lost, London: 1667, by John Milton |
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