Several of Milton's friends suffered this fate. Milton hid in the Tower of London, thinking he too might be killed. It was at this time that he began writing Paradise Lost. Many writers choose a religious stance and stay true to the writer's major themes. Paradise Lost is based on the book of Genesis from the Bible. Many other poets base their poems on the Bible, but none of them were influenced like Paradise Lost. Milton published Paradise Lost twice the first time he published it he only published the first 10 books in 1667 and then published the second with twelve books in 1674. It was the first major epic since that Sir Edmund Spenser published his work Faerie Queene in 1590. This epic is both cosmic and far removed from Restoration England. Milton promoted his own religious agenda which did not threaten any royalist regime. Speaking of good, evil, free will and the Trinity, he advocated for a personal to conscious practice of the Christian faith. It has become an example of sublimity in English