“Paradise Lost" Book-I: A Critical Appreciation

IntroductionParadise Lost (1665) is the great epic which Milton had been planning for years to write. During the years of political activity he had been looking around for a suitable subject and for a little while he even toyed with the idea of writing on the Arthurian legend. But eventually he chose to write on a far greater subject - the fall of Adam and Eve from God's grace and though them,