Paradise Lost - John Milton, John Leonard

Category: Classic, Historical Fiction, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: Philosophy Psychology Religion

Written by John Milton, John Leonard
Read by Adrian Schiller
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Brought to you by Penguin.

In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the fall of man. Written when Milton was in his 50s - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost’s apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to ‘justify the ways of God to men’ or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.