Wikipedia's article on Paradise Lost is a continuously revised, community edited encyclopedia entry rather than an authored or peer reviewed work. Its strength is broad, well referenced coverage of the poem's publication history, structure and critical reception drawn from many secondary sources; its weakness is that any individual claim can be edited by an anonymous contributor between one reading and the next, so it is used here for standard literary and biographical facts rather than as an independent scholarly authority.
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Wikipedia's article on Milton's Paradise Lost is a tertiary encyclopedic source with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful here for ordinary publication and reception facts. NotesEncyclopedic facts on John Milton's epic poem: its 1667 first edition in ten books, its reorganized twelve-book second edition of 1674, Milton's blindness and his dictation of the poem to amanuenses, and its long-standing place as the major epic poem in the English language.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost
Source Typeencyclopedia
Claims Backed By This Source (115 claims)
This source backs 115 claims across the atlas. As facts: 107 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Literary Works, 105 claims: 98 well-attested, 6 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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