Paradise Lost - John MiltonIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe inspiring cosmos 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, bitter and briefly in danger of execution Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence has led to intense debate about whether it manages