Paradise Lost
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Milton's epic poem tells the fall of Satan from heaven, his war against God, and his plan to corrupt the first humans in the Garden of Eden. Dictated after he went blind, it gives the devil some of the best lines in English poetry.
- Genres
- Narrative Poetry, Biblical Fiction
- Set in
- Heaven (Afterlife & Spiritual Realms); Hell (Afterlife & Spiritual Realms); Garden of Eden, Iraq (fictional)
- Audience
- Adult
- Published
- 1667
- Pages
- 333
