Paradise Lost
John Milton, 1667
A blind poet turns the fall of Adam and Eve into an epic of free will, ambition, and married love, and gives the devil its most persuasive voice.
John Milton
1608–1674
Milton was blind by 1652 and dictated Paradise Lost to scribes, sometimes calling for lines in the morning that he had composed overnight.
Feels like freedom, awe and ambition.
The logic of a king who would rather rule a wasteland than bend the knee.
What matter where, if I be still the same,And what I should be, all but less than heWhom thunder hath made greater? Here at leastWe shall be free; the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. Books by John Milton
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