Milton's epic of the Fall: Satan's rebellion and man's first disobedience.
Books that mention Paradise Lost (45)
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett: “if they were confronted with the alternatives of reading "Paradise Lost" and going round Trafalgar Square”
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: “Fortunately the books were written in the language, the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter.”
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: “…"keeping-room," as it is termed, he will remember the staid, respectable old book-case, with its glass doors, where Rollin's History,* Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Scott's Family Bible,** stand side by side in decorous order, with multitudes of other books,…”
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: “The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Robinson Crusoe”
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: “She had selected "Paradise Lost" from her shelf of classics, thinking, I suppose, the religious character of the book best adapted it to Sunday; I told her to begin at the beginning, and while she read Milton's invocation to that heavenly muse, who on the "secret top of Oreb or Sinai" had taught…”
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: ““That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.” —_Paradise Lost_.”
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott: ““Is that meant for 'Pulverized Bones,' ma'am?” “No, sir; it's 'Paradise Lost.'””
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake: “The history of this is written in Paradise Lost, and the Governor or Reason is called Messiah.”
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac: “There is a whole poem yet to be written, a first part of _Paradise Lost_; Milton's poem is only the apology for the revolt."”
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: “Yet, in the following lines, Milton seems to coincide with me, when he makes Adam thus expostulate with his Maker:-- "Hast thou not made me here thy substitute, And these inferior far beneath me set?”
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: “He had all the gravity and something of the splendour of Satan in the “Paradise Lost.””
Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins: “Paradise Lost. A Poem. By John Milton."”
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy: “Ethelberta drew from her pocket a small edition of Milton, and proposed that she should read a few lines from 'Paradise Lost.'”
The Antiquary by Walter Scott: “So eagerly the Fiend-- Paradise Lost.”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “found those six brave medicals to write Paradise Lost at your dictation?”
One of Ours by Willa Cather: “To him the story of "Paradise Lost" was as mythical as the "Odyssey"; yet when his mother read it aloud to him, it was not only beautiful but true.”
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy: “There was nobody who could write a poem like “Paradise Lost,” or “Childe Harold””
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore: “Fate seems bent on writing Paradise Lost in blank verse, in my case, and so has no use for a rhyming friend!”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “"A translation of Paradise Lost." "Into what language?" "Latin," he said solemnly.”
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X: “In either volume 43 or 44 of The Harvard Classics, I read Milton's Paradise Lost.”
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “B a Rhodes scholar who published a monograph on Paradise Lost in the Milton Quarterly”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “'a class in Calverley coming to grips with Paradise Lost'; also among books set alight in the Skoob scene: 'Paradise Lost, Euripides, Dr. Faustus.'”
Possession by A. S. Byatt: “may have seen Paradise Lost, in the garden where Eve recalled Pomona and Proserpina.”
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “talk about the cosmology of Paradise Lost, to certify me proficient in Milton”
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides: “Zoe checked her watch. "I have to go. I've got a class on Paradise Lost."”
White-Jacket by Herman Melville: “For, after all, though Paradise Lost be a noble poem, and we men-of-war's men, no doubt, largely partake in the immortality of the immortals”
The Rebel by Albert Camus: “The struggle between Satan and death in Paradise Lost, the favorite poem of the romantics, symbolizes this drama”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “I wish I had more space for Paradise Lost, but I have sketched how and why Milton's Satan needs to be read, and reread.”
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown: “The poem is signed John Milton. The influential English poet who wrote Paradise Lost...”
Atonement by Ian McEwan: “it surely proved the case of Paradise Lost in reverse—the heroine became more loathsome as her death-fixated virtue was revealed.”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “...and it is as impossible to imagine that a Duke could be a great novelist as that Paradise Lost could be written by a man behind a counter.”
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood: “On my private shelves I've arranged my personal selection of proscribed books... Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Paradise Lost, Lives of Girls and Women”
The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner: “'I confused her body for a simplified prose version of Paradise Lost.'”
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver: “'I had also recently read The Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost'”
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery: “Isn't it something to have started a soul along a path that may end in Shakespeare and Paradise Lost?"”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “Paradise Lost was published in the year 1667; and the famous lines (l. ii. 708, &c.) which startled the licenser, may allude to the recent comet of 1664”
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: “98. Sylvan scene. V. Milton, Paradise Lost, iv. 140.”
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: “Knight could not keep from his mind the words of Adam's reproach to Eve in PARADISE LOST, and at last whispered them to himself--”
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler: “He said: "Oh, don't talk about rewards. Look at Milton, who only got 5 pounds for'Paradise Lost.'"”
L'Homme qui Rit by Victor Hugo: “It was about the time when M. Huet, Bishop of Avranches, wrote to Saumaise, who had done the author of "Paradise Lost" the honour to refute and abuse him, "_How can you trouble yourself about so mean a thing as that Milton?_"”
The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins: “high church and choral service in the town on Sundays--recitations in the evening from Paradise Lost, by an amateur elocutionist--oh, you foolish, headstrong child!”