Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

For most readers, “Paradise Lost” is too long, too difficult and too pious. Milton’s epic is formidable—10,565 lines of dense and lofty verse divided by Milton into 12 substantial books.

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics ...

In the first two books of “Paradise Lost,” Satan politicizes his wounded pride, using all his powers of persuasiveness to build support in Hell for the righteousness of his rebellion against God.

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