Paradise Lost (Special Edition)

The protagonist of this Protestant epic is the fallen angel, Satan. Looked at from a modern perspective it may appear to some that Milton presents Satan sympathetically, as an ambitious and prideful being who defies his tyrannical creator, omnipotent God, and wages war on Heaven, only to be defeated and cast down. Indeed, William Blake, a great admirer of Milton's, and who illustrated the epic poem, said of Milton that 'he was a true Poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it'