【正文】
very demanding and he gradually became blind. Prior to his blindness in 1652, his eyes could only perceive the difference between light darkness. What is worse, his wife died that year, leaving him three daughters. ? During the Restoration Milton was naturally arrested and put into prison, but his life was spared by the king. He returned to poetry and set about posing Paradise Lost, which won him immediate fame and success after its publication in 1667. Paradise Regained, his last great poem, came out in 1671, together with Samson Agonistes (力士參孫 ). ? Milton died on November 8, 1674. He was buried in London in the small church of , Cripplegate, which is still standing. At his death his literary reputation was growing rapidly and by 1700 Paradise Lost was already considered as a classic of English literature, the greatest epic in the English language. The story of the epic(史詩(shī) ) goes as follows: Satan and his followers rose against God, but they were defeated and cast out of Heaven into Hell before Adam and Eve were created. Even in Hell, Satan and his adherents are planning another plot. Having managed to escape from Hell, Satan and his adherents are planning another plot. Having managed to escape from Hell, Satan goes to the newly created world to corrupt man. Having overheard the secret of the tree of knowledge of Good of Evil in the garden of Eden, Satan enters the body of the serpent (snake) and convinces Eve that he has eaten the fruit of the tree of Knowledge and gained wisdom and speech. She eats the fruit from the forbidden tree, and then persuades Adam t