In Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale,
conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across
huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a
charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of
this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on
the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties -
blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly
in danger of execution�Paradise Lost has an apparent
ambivalence towards authority which has led to intense
debate about whether it manages to "justify the ways of God
to men", or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
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