The Pearl of Great Price

Apr 27 Milton's Paradise Lost

Tim Byron Season 4 Episode 27

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Some people describe it as the greatest poem in the English Language.  Today we look at the lament 'Paradise Lost' - by the idealistic Puritan John Milton. At the end of Cromwell's Commonwealth, and the restoration of the monarchy, impoverished and embittered today he sold the copywrite to his great poem