Post-Reformation · 1671

Paradise Regained

John Milton (1608-1674)

Milton's four-book companion to Paradise Lost narrows its scope to Christ's temptation in the wilderness, presenting the Son of God's steadfast refusals of Satan as the act that undoes what the first Adam lost. More spare and meditative than Paradise Lost, it has been underread beside its predecessor, but Milton reportedly considered it the better poem. Published in 1671, four years after Paradise Lost, alongside Samson Agonistes.

1.5 hrs total · 4 chapters