In breakout sessions at the conference, many discussions centered around companies touting their i-grade status, aspirations to achieve investment grade status or, Milton-esquely, to re-secure their Paradise Lost.

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Swiss-born English painter Henry Fuseli leads the first wave, which includes Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and Goya a generation inspired by Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante's "Inferno, " Milton's "Paradise Lost" and English Gothic novels.

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For them there is a sense of Paradise Lost.

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Some 20 years later, in the wake of the publication of the final part of the trilogy, The Return of the King, WH Auden wrote that the cycle surpassed Milton's Paradise Lost.

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Suddenly, in the late 16th century, Paradise was lost, except on some regional maps.

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And for those who know the tale, this gravity-defying, wondrous landscape retains a sense of bittersweet beauty, a faultless paradise somehow infused with lost love.

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Paradise notes that the company has lost money for seven straight quarters, and that its costs are watt are about double those of First Solar.

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