On 3/23/06, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > You shock me, sir! Surely every English undergraduate in the country > has read it? Having taught poetry to a group of English undergraduates at DMU, I can say with some conviction that this is *far* from likely. I've read both Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. At least, I think I have. As Levin points out, even those who *think* they've read it can only *remember* the opening and a few good quotes from the first 300 lines. Dominic