LiteratureBook · 1667
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Milton sets out to justify the ways of God to men and gives Satan such force in the early books that readers have argued about whose side the poem is on ever since. Blind by the time he composed it, dictating to a succession of amanuenses.
Why you should read this
This is a major epic of English literature written in blank verse, retelling the biblical Fall in a classical epic register modeled on Virgil and Homer. It assumes real familiarity with scripture and classical epic convention, so it rewards readers who bring some grounding in both.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 1667
- Themes
- EpicLiterature
