'Classic Poem' Choice

Ryan van Winkle, recently appointed ‘reader-in-residence’ (basically, the idea is to promote the reading of poetry in Scotland) at the Scottish Poetry Library (bonus: there’s a Colin Will poem on the SPL front page at the moment) asked me to choose a classic poem and say something about it for one of the SPL’s ‘reading room’ pages. I chose Paradise Lost and you can read my comments at the link.