id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2013 Paradise Lost - Wikipedia .html text/html 7700 724 74 Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout.[1][2] It is considered to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.[3] The poem concerns the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other, Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other fallen angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, Tartarus. William Blake, The Temptation and Fall of Eve, 1808 (illustration of Milton's Paradise Lost) John Milton's Paradise Lost ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2013.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2013.txt