Paradise Regain’d feels like a situation where Paradise Lost was a bestseller so Milton just titled the next epic “paradise ___” in order to associate them. Whilst it is another bible fan fiction, this one retelling Jesus’ 40 days in the desert, it just didn’t have the same splendour as Paradise Lost, and ultimately is deceiving as at no point in the poem is Eden reclaimed, instead Jesus only resists the temptation of Satan. I can recognise why it isn’t regarded as highly as Paradise Lost, and maybe without such text to live up to, it claiming it’s namesake, it may have appeared better, however in the case of it being a sequel it just felt a little forced and empty.