[Resolute Conservative]

I read Paradise Lost about every 2 years or so. One of my favorites. The imagery used in Chapter 9 to describe Satan is a work of art.

[dfwgator]

"Don't write this down, but I find Milton probably as boring as you find Milton. Mrs. Milton found him boring too. He's a little bit long-winded, he doesn't translate very well into our generation, and his jokes are terrible."

[Verginius Rufus]

I've only read Paradise Lost once, many years ago. His sonnet "On His Blindness" is included in One Hundred and One Famous Poems It ends with the line "They also serve who only stand and wait."

That inspired the title of the book They Also Serve which my father read when he was young--it's about the men behind the lines in World War I involved with logistics. (I never read it myself.)

[ProgressingAmerica]

FWIW LibriVox has 2 different completed versions of Paradise Lost as well as separate parts and pieces of it in short works collections. And also Paradise Regained.

In case it had value for you. There’s two full pages of Milton works spilling over into a third.

https://librivox.org/author/175