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Book VII

BY GABRIEL ROBERTS

In Book VII Raphael continues his revelations to Adam. The book begins with a recapitulation of Milton's appeal for divine inspiration from Book I. Milton's invocation of Urania is directly paralleled with Adam's request for knowledge from Raphael. After warning Adam about the dangers of man's thirst for knowledge, Raphael proceeds to explain how the world was created, after Satan was banished from Heaven. He describes how God announced his intention to create the world, and how Heaven responded with rejoicing. God then initiated the Creation through the Son, his Word. The rest of the book charts the six days of Creation much as it is described by the account in Genesis. The last thing to be created is man. Book VII ends with a heavenly celebration of this last masterpiece of creation.

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Milton and the Critics