In Pullman's introduction, he modifies Blake's line to quip that he himself 'is of the Devil's party and does know it.' The epic was also one of the prime inspirations for Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels His Dark Materials (itself a quotation from Book II of Paradise Lost).In his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie adapts major motifs and plot elements from Paradise Lost, such as a 'fall' and subsequent transformation.John Steinbeck's novel In Dubious Battle takes its title from Book 1 of Paradise Lost.Frederick Buechner's debut novel, A Long Day's Dying, takes its title from Book 10 of Paradise Lost.

Lewis' novel The Great Divorce the narrator meets writer George MacDonald in heaven, who uses the quote 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n' as answer to the narrator's questions about heaven and hell. Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley specifically notes in the preface to his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound that he constructed his character Prometheus in part as an attempt to revise Milton's Satan.The concept of the 'Fallen Angel,' an epithet of Satan, is used to both describe the protagonist, Victor, and to describe his monster. Shelley uses a quote from Book X of Paradise Lost on the epigram page of her novel and Paradise Lost is one of three books Frankenstein's monster finds this, therefore, influences his psychological growth. Paradise Lost influenced Mary Shelley when she wrote her novel Frankenstein.In addition to his famous quip in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell about Milton belonging to the devil's party, Blake wrote Milton: a Poem which has Milton, like Satan, rejecting a life in Heaven. Blake emphasized the rebellious, satanic elements of the epic the repressive character Urizen in the Four Zoas is a tyrannical version of Milton's God. In addition to printing an illustrated edition of the poem, much of the mystic poetry of William Blake is a direct response to or rewriting of Paradise Lost.In literature The cover to the 2017 book Essays in Anarchism and Religion features Paradise Lost engravings by Gustave Doré Paradise Lost has had a profound impact on writers, artists and illustrators, and, in the twentieth century, filmmakers.

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