John Milton, Paradise Lost
Adam in Paradise Lost
Adam offers the visiting angel rest and the choicest garden food. His invitation makes the human dwelling a place that heavenly beings can enter through hospitality. The poem also celebrates wedded love as a foundation of human relationships, locating shared life within the innocence of Eden. Adam’s household is more than the background to a future failure.
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LiteraryAdam offers the visiting angel rest and the choicest garden food. His invitation makes the human dwelling a place that heavenly beings can enter through hospitality.
Further detail
LiteraryThe poem also celebrates wedded love as a foundation of human relationships, locating shared life within the innocence of Eden. Adam’s household is more than the background to a future failure.
Context & interpretation
The entry follows Adam’s hospitality and household life in Milton’s poem. It does not exhaust his later transgression or prophetic education, and the poetic account is kept distinct from a reconstruction of human origins.
Original passages
Source 1
Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré
honour theseOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Milton, Paradise Lost, active reader leaf 151
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0115-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0115-E001-P0151
- Original scan leaf
- 152
- Recorded leaf number
- 152
- Current Reader position
- 147
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Source 2
Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré
Relations dear, and all the charitiesOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Milton, Paradise Lost, active reader leaf 129
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0115-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0115-E001-P0129
- Original scan leaf
- 130
- Recorded leaf number
- 130
- Current Reader position
- 125
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
