This imaginary scene reminds us that in the most literal sense Paradise Lost was initially a truly oral epic, since the blind Milton had to speak it aloud for his daughters to write it down. Image Subject: PortraitsArtist: Eugène DelacroixRelated Work: Paradise LostRelated Person: Milton's DaughtersPermissions: Picture & data courtesy of the Yorck Project, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License (Wikipedia) Log in to post comments