John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the English Revolution, Milton wrote an ...

formerly Surveyor General of the Works to his Majesty King George the first. Rysbrack was the statuary who cut it. In his 1742 history of the Abbey J. Crull quotes the verses by John Dryden, usually ...