Milton dictating to his daughter by Henry Fuseli Found a great series of lectures on Milton by John Rogers . He articulates a righteous rebellion. If God was really all powerful would he be begging for you to worship him? Why so much fear about evil? Milton dismisses Satan, but we can see the critique as deeper than the superficial dismissal. Is Milton a dead white man who we shouldn't read any more? John Milton was born in 1608 (Shakespeare will still be alive till he is 8). He died 1674. Paradise Lost is the classic he wrote that still is read today. It came out in 1667 when he was 59, second edition in 1674. He was the first modern writer to employ unrhymed verse outside of the theatre or translations. He was blind and impoverished when he composed it 1658 to 1664. He sold the book for £5 (equivalent to approximately £770 in 2015 purchasing power). The first run was a quarto edition priced at three shillings per copy (about £23 in 2015 purchasing power equ...