TY - BOOK AU - Milton, John AU - Ricks, Christopher B. TI - Paradise lost SN - 9780140423631 U1 - 820 PY - 1989/// CY - Harmondsworth PB - Penguin N2 - Written when Milton was in his fifties, blind, and disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution, this poem is of an epic scale, conjuring up a vast cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. It has led to debate about whether it manages to justify the 'ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity ER -