> Samuel Johnson ranked Paradise Lost among the highest “productions of the human mind” Although I enjoyed it, I think Samuel Johnson was also right when he sa

> Samuel Johnson ranked Paradise Lost among the highest “productions of the human mind” Although I enjoyed it, I think Samuel Johnson was also right when he said that "none ever wished longer than it was." Like a lot of literature from that time it can be hard to understand without a fair amount of background knowledge in Christian theology. That was taken for granted then (and really up until the 20th century), but makes it operate in a different intellectual universe than many of us do today.