John Milton
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The poet in full seventeenth-century style.
Milton With Family
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Delacroix's painting of Milton reading to his daughters.
Elderly John Milton
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An engraving of Milton in his later years.
Paradise Lost
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The cover of the 1668 first edition.
Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve
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One of William Blake's illustrations for the 1808 edition of Paradise Lost.
The Temptation and Fall of Eve
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Another scene illustrated by William Blake for Paradise Lost.
The Heavenly Hosts
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Gustave Dore's illustration for an edition of Paradise Lost, circa 1866.