Unit six P'm Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge Background Information John Milton (1608-1674) is an English poet, whose rich dense verse was a powerful influence on succeeding English poets, and whose prose was devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. The epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), Milton's masterpiece and one of the greatest poems in orld literature, dramatizes the Biblical account of humanitys banishment from Paradise. Milton also wrote a sequel to Paradise Lost, called Paradise Regained(1671), in which Jesus triumphantly resists satan and regains the Paradise lost by Adam and Eve Book two English teaching plan of cuitBook two English teaching plan of cuit 6 Unit Six I’m Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge Background Information John Milton (1608-1674) is an English poet, whose rich, dense verse was a powerful influence on succeeding English poets, and whose prose was devoted to the defense of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. The epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), Milton’s masterpiece and one of the greatest poems in world literature, dramatizes the Biblical account of humanity’s banishment from Paradise. Milton also wrote a sequel to Paradise Lost, called Paradise Regained (1671), in which Jesus triumphantly resists Satan and regains the Paradise lost by Adam and Eve