Paradise Lost - John Milton

Paradise Lost

By John Milton

  • Release Date: 2017-04-02
  • Genre: Poetry

Description

John Milton's epic 17th-century poetic masterpiece draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence. Paradise Lost has exercised enormous influence on generations of artists and their works, ranging from the Romantic poets William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley to Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.