John Milton (1608-1674)◦ Protestant: the meaning

of evil in a universe created by a benevolent God. (describes the fall of Adam and Eve)Paradise Lost (1667)

Donne – Meditations (1623-1624)

◦ “No Man is an Island”

William Blake completed two sets of water color illustrations to Paradise Lost, the second of which, completed in 1808, is represented here.