Paradise Lost.
An epic poem written in 1667 by the english poet John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674).
In 1874, Paradise Lost is illustrated by Gustave Doré's fifty illustrations.
I'm dumping all of them.
Original text and tl;dr side:
paradiselostinmodernenglish.blogspot.com/
Poem Summary:
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/paradise-lost/poem-summary
Short summary:
The story opens in hell, where Satan and his followers are recovering from defeat in a war they waged against God. They build a palace, called Pandemonium, where they hold council to determine whether or not to return to battle. Instead they decide to explore a new world prophecied to be created, where a safer course of revenge can be planned. Satan undertakes the mission alone. At the gate of hell, he meets his offspring, Sin and Death, who unbar the gates for him. He journeys across chaos till he sees the new universe floating near the larger globe which is heaven. God sees Satan flying towards this world and foretells the fall of man. His Son, who sits at his right hand, offers to sacrifice himself for man's salvation. Meanwhile, Satan enters the new universe. He flies to the sun, where he tricks an angel, Uriel, into showing him the way to man's home.
Satan gains entrance into the Garden of Eden, where he finds Adam and Eve and becomes jealous of them. He overhears them speak of God's commandment that they should not eat the forbidden fruit. Uriel warns Gabriel and his angels, who are guarding the gate of Paradise, of Satan's presence. Satan is apprehended by them and banished from Eden. God sends Raphael to warn Adam and Eve about Satan. Raphael recounts to them how jealousy against the Son of God led a once favored angel to wage war against God in heaven, and how the Son, Messiah, cast him and his followers into hell. He relates how the world was created so mankind could one day replace the fallen angels in heaven.
Satan returns to earth, and enters a serpent. Finding Eve alone he induces her to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree. Adam, resigned to join in her fate, eats also. Their innocence is lost and they become aware of their nakedness. In shame and despair, they become hostile to each other. The Son of God descends to earth to judge the sinners, mercifully delaying their sentence of death. Sin and Death, sensing Satan's success, build a highway to earth, their new home. Upon his return to hell, instead of a celebration of victory, Satan and his crew are turned into serpents as punishment. Adam reconciles with Eve. God sends Michael to expel the pair from Paradise, but first to reveal to Adam future events resulting from his sin. Adam is saddened by these visions, but ultimately revived by revelations of the future coming of the Savior of mankind. In sadness, mitigated with hope, Adam and Eve are sent away from the Garden of Paradise.
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'Messiah hurls the rebel angels from the open wall of heaven'
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'Satan rises from the burning lake'
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'Satan calls forth his defeated legions'
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'The fallen angels explore the landscape of Hell'
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'The hierarchy of devils is called to council'
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'Satan holds court in Hell'
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'The fallen angels learn what monsters inhabit Hell'
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'Satan encounters his offspring, Sin and Death, at the gate of Hell'
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'Satan struggles against the anarchy of chaos'
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'The angels celebrate the anointing of the Lord's Son, Messiah'
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'Chaos watches as the Rebel Angels are thrown into Hell'
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'The Fall of Satan'
'Satan is cast out of Heaven and is plunged into Hell'
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'Satan lands atop Mount Niphates, where he laments the loss of Heaven'
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'Satan views the whole of Eden'
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'Satan hides in Paradise'
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'Adam and Eve drink from the stream'
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'The angel Uriel reports the approach of Satan to the sentry angels at the entrance to Paradise'
This isnt the right thread, stop trying to steal the good OP's thunder
The real thread is here boards.4chan.org/hr/thread/2632062
With the op who puts effort into his posts
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'The Guardian angels Zephon and Ithuriel'
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'Satan is banished from Eden'
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'Adam awakens to find Eve in restless sleep'
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'The angel Raphael visits Eden'
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'Adam and Eve in conference with Raphael'
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'Abdiel and Satan'
''The battle of angels commences'
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'War in Heaven'
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'Satan smitten by Michael'
>>2632667
Oh thank goodness, my autism got the better of me, I thought someone was trying to steal your thunder and it kinda irritated me, thanks for a month of great posts friendo.
>>2632484
Im an illiterate fuck, does this come after paridiso?
>>2632955
This is from a different author and time period entirely. The man who wrote The Divine Comedy was italian, and about 300 years later an english poet wrote this. It's just that an artist did depictions for both works.
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'Now Night her course began'
'Satan resting on the mountain'
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'The warring angels call a truce as night falls'
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'The fall of the rebel angels'
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'Hell opens to receive the defeated angels'
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'Torrent waterfall'
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'The creation of fish and birds'
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'"The Leviathan"
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'Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores,
Their brood as numerous hatch'
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'The seventh evening in Eden'
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'Raphael returns to Heaven'
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'Tigris at the foot of Paradise'
'In with the river sunk, and with it rose, Satan'.
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'Satan envies the blissful state of Adam and Eve and plots their ruin'
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'Satan possesses the sleeping serpent'
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'The first approach of the serpent'
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'Eve is tempted by the serpent'
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'Adam and Eve in remorse and despair'
'Nor only tears rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within began to rise'
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'Adam and Eve hear god call them and hide from him'
can we have more threads like this?
>>2636187
that would require actual contribution
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'Satan returns to Hell'
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'The devils are turned into serpents as punishment'
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'Sin and Death come to earth'
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'Michael descends to earth with a band of angels'
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'Noah's ark'
'The Deluge'
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'Rising of the waters'
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'Moses'
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'Michael tells Adam and Eve they may no longer stay in Paradise'
The End
>>2637155
Thank you so much
>>2632484
thanks you very much, OP
>>2632484
love these threads
If only Satan had told God it was just a prank.
>>2632487
>They build a palace, called Pandemonium
Thank You!!!
