By the time Milton published his masterpiece in 1658, he had experienced paradise lost in his own personal life-he lost his first and second wife, he lost two of his children in infancy-a baby boy named John and a little girl named Katherine, and he lost most of his health-he suffered from gout, was constantly ill, and become completely blind. Many literary critics have called it the greatest piece of poetry ever written in the English language. This lyrical portrayal of the fall of mankind comes from John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost. Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme. That with no middle flight intends to soar Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earthĭelight thee more, and Siloa’s Brook that flow’d That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seat, Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tasteīrought Death into the World, and all our woe, Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit
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