The Friends House Meeting book group. Photo: Courtesy of Tim Robertson.
A good read? Tim Robertson and Friends look at Paradise Lost
‘We much preferred the free-spirited Satan.’
by Tim Robertson and Friends
10th January 2025
The end of 2024 brought a sense of accomplishment to a group of us at Friends House Meeting in London.
The year marked 350 years since the death of John Milton, and the publication of Paradise Lost, his long narrative poem of Satan, God, Adam, and Eve. It sprang from the same tumultuous period that produced Quakerism, and since Milton, as a Cromwellian Puritan, opposed the same hierarchies as early Friends, we decided to spend the year reading the poem together.
