Paradise Lost, Perhaps the Greatest English Poem. Banned for 216 Years

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden by Peter Wenzel, Vatican Museum (detail)Paradise Lost, published more than 350 years ago (1667), is still almost routinely characterized as the greatest poem in English. More guardedly, it is called “the greatest epic poem.” (Yes, there are others, such as Beowulf, TheFaerieQueene, Don Juan, John Brown’s Body, and Song of Myself. . . .)

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