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Subject·Satan / hell✕clear
Fiction · Epic poetry

Paradise Lost

John Milton
1667 · 591 pages

Satan rebels in heaven, loses, and comes for the first two people. Milton meant to justify God and produced a devil so magnificent he nearly walks off with the greatest poem in English.

★ 9.5