What in Me Is Dark The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost

<p><b>**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**</b><br><br>‘Lively and humane… Reade’s enthusiasm and curiosity are winning’ <i>GUARDIAN</i><br><br><b>Summoned in Haiti’s struggle against colonial rule, read in prison by the young Malcolm X, and reimagined by Virginia Woolf - this is the revolutionary history of Milton's epic poem <i>Paradise Lost</i></b><br><br>Orlando Reade shows the many different, surprising, and often contradictory ways in which Milton’s epic poem <i>Paradise Lost</i> has been read across centuries and continents.<br><br>Boldly original, lively, and far-reaching, <i>What in Me Is Dark </i>is the story of how a work of literature born in the ashes of a failed revolution became an indelible part of the modern imagination.<br><br>Reade guides us through the epic, exploring how Milton came to write its dark and dazzling poetry, and offers us a new account of its radical, ever-evolving legacy.<br><br>‘Clever, wide-ranging…witty and sardonic' <i>NEW STATESMAN</i></p>