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Paradise Lost
John Milton
1667
Introduction
Paradise Lost, one of the greatest poems in the English language, was first published in 1667. John Milton had long cherished the ambition to write the consummate English epic, to do for the English language what Homer and Virgil had done for Greek and Latin, and what Dante had done for Italian. Milton had originally planned to base his epic on the Arthurian legends, the foundational myths for English nationalism, but later turned his attention to more universal questions. He decided to focus on the foundational myth of humanity itself, the Genesis account of creation and the Fall of Man. It was an ambitious project, for Milton was determined to attempt things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme,
and his success is indicated by the esteem in which the poem continues to be held.
Milton's epic poem received mixed reactions in the seventeenth century, and, over the years, has continued to arouse both praise and criticism. Yet, its admirers have always been more numerous that its detractors. The poem has influenced many authors and artists from John Dryden to William Blake, Mary Shelley to Philip K. Dick, C. S. Lew is to Gene Roddenberry. Aside from the sheer beauty of its language and the power of its characterization, the subject matter of the poem has continued to absorb readers of every generation. Milton does not hesitate to ask the most difficult of questions: If the world was created by a good, just, and loving God, why is there little evidence of goodness and justice in the world? What does it mean for humankind to be created in the image of that God, and how does