Paradise Lost temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's purpose, stated in Book I, is to "justify the ways of God to men". In his introduction to the Penguin edition of "Paradise Lost", the Milton scholar John Leonard notes, "John Milton was nearly sixty when he published Paradise Lost in 1667. The biographer John Aubrey (1626–97) tells us that the poem was begun in about 1658 and finished in about 1663. However, parts were almost certainly written earlier, and its roots lie in Milton's earliest youth." Leonard speculates that the
William Blake's mythology other epic prophetic works, "Milton a Poem" and "Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion". The parts into which Albion is divided are the four Zoas: The Blake pantheon also includes feminine "emanations" that have separated from an integrated male being, as Eve separated from Adam: The fall of Albion and his division into the Zoas and their emanations are also the central themes of "Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion". Rintrah first appears in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", personifying revolutionary wrath. He is later grouped together with other spirits of rebellion in "The Vision of the