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John Milton’s Paradise Lost is an English epic poem in blank verse, first published in 1667 in ten books and reissued in a revised twelve-book form in 1674. Milton, already blind, composed it in the years after the Restoration, dictating the lines to scribes; he had earlier been a polemical writer for the Commonwealth and a defender of regicide, and the poem’s meditation on rebellion, authority, free will, and obedience is often read against that political aftermath. Drawing its main action from Genesis—the revolt of Satan and the fallen angels, the creation of the world, and the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve—it also adopts the machinery and elevated style of classical epic, especially Homer and Virgil, while announcing a sacred subject “to justify the ways of God to men.” The work became the central English Protestant epic, shaping later ideas of Satan as a grand adversary and of Eden as a lost domestic paradise.

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