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In case anyone is interested, the full text of Paradise Lost with helpful annotations is available online at Dartmouth: https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/readi

• cess11 2y ago
  It's also on Standard Ebooks, in case one considers the annotations distracting: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-milton/paradise-lost https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/john-milton/paradise-lost
• kibwen 2y ago
  I know that people spend a lot of time fixating on how to write a good opening line for their books ("It was a dark and stormy night", etc.), but Paradise Lost has I think the most beautiful closing passage of any book (spoilers for The Bible): They looking back, all th' Eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late thir happie seat, Wav'd over by that flaming Brand, the Gate With dreadful Faces throng'd and fierie Armes: Som natural tears they drop'd, but wip'd them soon; The World was all before them, where to choose Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide: They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow, Through Eden took thir solitarie way.
  • aidenn0 2y ago
    A Tale of Two Cities also has a beautiful (and famous) closing passage.
• Frummy 2y ago
  HN discussing this link in old thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38876560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38876560