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InĀ Paradise Lost, Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring 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 center of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fiftiesāblind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, and briefly in danger of executionāParadise Lostās apparent ambivalence toward authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to ājustify the ways of God to men,ā or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.
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