Paradise Lost is the greatest epic poem in English literature, and Milton's Satan one of its most compelling figures. The controversy has been exceeded only by its tremendous influence: countless masters of English verse have paid homage to Milton and Paradise Lost. A profound meditation on the role of man under God, Pardise Lost is essential reading.

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Epic poem concerning Adam's fall from the Garden of Eden and the defeat of the magnificent angel Lucifer, who was thrust down in his unholy pride from heaven to the darkness of hell.

Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, Northrop Frye, Stanley Fish, and Helen Vendler. Written at a time of personal and political...