One work by this poet begins with the speaker picking laurels because his friend drowned in the Irish Sea.  
One work by this poet begins with the speaker picking laurels because his friend drowned in the Irish Sea.  Another work ends with the protagonist returning home after having avoided temptation, unlike the two protagonists in an earlier work, who are expelled from their home after giving in to temptation. That later work was published with a play combining Greek tragedy with a subject from the Book of Judges. This poet who wrote Lycidas and Samson Agonistes began his most famous work with the phrase "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree". Name this 17th-century English poet who wrote Paradise Regained and Paradise Lost.
One work by this poet begins with the speaker picking laurels because his friend drowned in the Irish Sea.  
John Milton