Eden renewed

"Milton, said Dryden, was the author of 'the most noble poem of his age and nation'; perfecter of the English epic and greatest poet of the Sublime, he was also a profound classical scholar, highly placed revolutionary and outstanding Christian apologist." "His life can be separated into three overlapping parts: the poet of the early years who wrote the beautiful, lyrical poems, Lycidas, 'L'Allegro', Comus and 'Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity'; the writer of political and theological pamphlets; and the blind, majestic old man who wrote Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson…