O Earth how like to heaven if not preferred
- DMI number:
- 31502
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Fowler ed. Paradise Lost (Harlow: Longman, 1998).
- First Line:
- O Earth how like to heaven if not preferred
- Last Line:
- From dust spite then with spite is best repaid
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Hell and Nature
- Author:
- John Milton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Paradise Lost Book 9.
- Title:
- Poetical miscellany consisting of select pieces for the use of schools the fourth edition [ESTC T132703]
- Page No(s):
- pp.117-119
- Poem Title:
- Satan's Soliloquy after traversing the Globe, and examining the Nature of every Creature.
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- Title:
- The poetical miscellany consisting of select pieces [ESTC T175134] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.136-138
- Poem Title:
- Satan's Soliloquy after traversing the Globe, and examining the Nature of every Creature
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- Title:
- The poetical miscellany consisting of select pieces for the use of schools [ESTC T118165] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.135-138
- Poem Title:
- Satan's Soliloquy after traversing the Globe, and examining the Nature of every Creature
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
- Title:
- The poetical miscellany consisting of select pieces for the use of schools third edition [ESTC T118166] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.117-119
- Poem Title:
- Satan's Soliloquy after traversing the Globe, and examining the Nature of every Creature
- Attribution:
- Milton
- Attributed To:
- John Milton
Poem Aliases
Milton. Paradise Lost. Book 9.
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