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Samuel Johnson wrote famously of the poet John Milton’s 10,000-line signature work, Paradise Lost: “None ever wished it longer than it is.” The sheer length of this epic poem, together with Milton’s densely Latinate vocabulary and style and his 17th-century religious preoccupations Adam and Eve, God and Satan have made attacking the pages of Paradise Lost, or any other of Milton’s many works, a daunting proposition for most people today. Indeed, few college English departments these days even offer stand-alone undergraduate courses on Milton (1608-1674), once considered England’s greatest poet, even surpassing Shakespeare. The few that do try to lure students by tricking Milton out in the contemporary politics of greatest interest to their instructors: “gender,” “the poetics of revolution,” and so forth. I myself was lucky to have been taught Milton by a professor considered hopelessly old-fashioned even decades ago, who simply led us through the lines, explaine

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