Paradise Lost Books I and II

Excerpt from Paradise Lost: Books I. And II<br><br>John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on the 9th of December, 1608. He was the third child of John and Sarah Milton. His father, who had been disinherited for turning Protestant, had left the family home in Oxfordshire, and settled in London as a scrivener. He was a musician, and a composer of such worth that his songs were published along with those of Byrd, Dowland, and others of first rank of that time. We find little about the poet's mother. Her grandson, Edward Phillips, says she was "a woman of incomparable virtue and goodness."<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.