1. John Milton (1608-1674)

2. I.General introduction John Milton:one of the greatest English poets his masterpiece Paradise Lost: considered the greatest English epic, Miltonic style: a grand style with long and powerful blank verse and the theme of universe

3. II. Paradise Lost 1.The themes 2.Image of Satan 3.His sympathy with Satan 4.blank verse 5.run-on lines (enjambment) 6.difficult sentence structure

4. 7.quotations 1 The mind is its own place, and in itself /Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.(Book 1, 254) 2 Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.(Book 1, 263) 3 Long is the way/ And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.(Book 2, 432) 4 A dungeon horrible, on all sides round/As one great furnace flamed—yet from those /No light, but rather darkness visible/Served only to discover sights of woe

5. III.Additional information:Miltonic(Italian)sonnet meter: iambic pentameter rhyme scheme: abba abba cde cde(cdcdcde) one octave(8-line stanza)+one sestet(6-line stanza) octave: problem; sestet: solution (cf English/Shakespearean sonnet: 3 quatrains+one couplet)