Publisher's Synopsis
Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove his power and wound his enemies. He fixes upon God's beloved new creations, Adam and Eve, as the vehicles of his vengeance. In this dramatic and influential epic, Milton tells the story of the serpent and the apple, the fall of man and the exile from paradise in stunningly vivid and powerful verse.I, WHO erewhile the happy Garden sungBy one man's disobedience lost, now singRecovered Paradise to all mankind, By one man's firm obedience fully triedThrough all temptation, and the Tempter foiledIn all his wiles, defeated and repulsed, And Eden raised in the waste WildernessThou Spirit, who led'st this glorious EremiteInto the desert, his victorious fieldAgainst the spiritual foe, and brought'st him thenceBy proof the undoubted Son of God, inspire, As thou art wont, my prompted song, else mute, And bear through highth or depth of Nature's bounds, With prosperous wing full summed, to tell of deedsAbove heroic, though in secret done, And unrecorded left through many an age: Worthy to have not remained so long
