Paradise Lost
by John Milton
English • Public Domain • Free to stream
Paradise Lost, published in 1667, is the greatest epic poem in the English language. John Milton — blind, politically exiled, and dictating from memory each morning to his daughters — retells the Fall of Man with breathtaking ambition. Satan, defeated in Heaven and cast into Hell, rallies his rebel angels and devises a plan to corrupt God's newest creation: mankind. Through the temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Milton explores free will, disobedience, and the possibility of redemption. The poem features one of literature's most complex and compelling villains — a Satan so magnificent that readers have debated for 350 years whether Milton secretly admired him. Stream this timeless classic free, with no account or subscription required.
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Paradise Lost was written by John Milton, first published in 1667. Milton dictated the poem while completely blind, composing it from memory each night and dictating it each morning.
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