Paradise Lost

His main creation, the idea of which came to him in his youth, — the poem "Paradise Lost," — John Milton, being already advanced in age and blind, dictated to his daughters and a notary. This book about free will, responsibility, and the price of disobedience made him the second greatest poet of England — after Shakespeare, and debates about it continue to this day.


The Satan, who rebels against heavenly authority, suffers defeat but does not accept it and turns his gaze towards Eden. However, the familiar biblical plot receives a new interpretation from Milton — both good and evil in his poem turn out to be not so unambiguous…