Paradise Lost
by John Milton · 1667
Classics · ranked #78 in category
Satan falls, corrupts Eden, and humanity loses paradise — told in twelve books of blank verse that Milton intended as a justification of God's ways to man. One of the great monuments of English literature and one of the most ambivalent: Satan is so compelling that Blake claimed Milton was secretly of the Devil's party, and readers have disagreed ever since.
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- 1667 · 1660s
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- John Milton
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- Essential Read
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