
Paradise Lost
The life and times of Milton’s epic poem about Satan’s revolt against God and humanity’s expulsion from paradise
John Milton’s Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately associated with religious doctrine and its implications for how we live our lives. For more than three centuries, it has been a flashpoint ...
The life and times of Milton’s epic poem about Satan’s revolt against God and humanity’s expulsion from paradise
John Milton’s Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately associated with religious doctrine and its implications for how we live our lives. For more than three centuries, it has been a flashpoint ...