Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

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In dramatising Lucifer’s rebellion against God, his battalions of angels being hurled into hell, Satan’s defiant rise, the ...