Paradise LostType of Work Paradise Lost is an epic poem which — like the epic poems of Homer, Dante, Vergil, and Goethe—tells a story about momentous events while incorporating grand themes that are timeless and universal、Date pletedMilton pleted the first version of Paradise Lost in 1667、 It consisted of 10 books、 In 1668 and 1669, he added an introductory ment about the verse form and a special section with summaries of each book 、 In 1674, he published the final version of the epic, in which he divided Books 7 and 10 into two books each 、 The pleted work thus had 12 books instead of 10、 He also placed each summary at the beginning of the book it summarized、 Sources Milton used the Bible, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, and the stories in GrecoRoman mythology as sou