Blending of Renaissance and Reformation in "Paradise Lost" Book-I

IntroductionMilton's mind was shaped and moulded by the influence of the Renaissance and the Reformation. On the one hand, he drank deep of classical poetry and philosophy and inherited all the culture and humanism of the Renaissance, and on the other, he had a deeply religious temperament, and was a profound student of the Bible and the literature of the scripture. Thus at the back of Milton's