**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'Lively and humane... Reade's enthusiasm and curiosity
are winning' GUARDIAN Summoned in Haiti's struggle against colonial rule read in prison by
the young Malcolm X and reimagined by Virginia Woolf - this is the revolutionary history of
Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost Orlando Reade shows the many different surprising and
often contradictory ways in which Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost has been read across
centuries and continents. Boldly original lively and far-reaching What in Me Is Dark is the
story of how a work of literature born in the ashes of a failed revolution became an indelible
part of the modern imagination. Reade guides us through the epic exploring how Milton came to
write its dark and dazzling poetry and offers us a new account of its radical ever-evolving
legacy. 'Clever wide-ranging...witty and sardonic' NEW STATESMAN
