Paradise Lost & Other Poems John Milton

Paradise Lost tells of the expulsion from Eden and the war of Heaven that preceded it, tracing the fall of humanity through the eyes of both Satan and mortal kind. Written in ten thousand lines of blank verse across twelve sections, Milton's epic carries the weight of the political upheaval that led to the English Civil War. This edition brings the poem together with Milton's other poetry in a collection built for readers ready to spend time with one of English literature's great epics.