Scott Bradfield

The subversive message of Paradise Lost

The great poem is mostly about revolution: how much individuals can revolt against God, father, church and king without bringing all the heavens down upon their heads

‘The Temptation and Fall of Eve’, by William Blake, for an 1808 edition of Paradise Lost. [Alamy]

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