John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the English Revolution, Milton wrote an ...

Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai ...

Rysbrack was the statuary who cut it. In his 1742 history of the Abbey J. Crull quotes the verses by John Dryden, usually given below Milton's picture in Paradise Lost, which were not inscribed on the ...

Joanne Diaz, a professor of English literature at Illinois Wesleyan University, organized a 10-hour marathon reading of John ...

Doubtless because of the link between what John Milton called the “Blest Pair ... The opening of Book Two of Paradise Lost has been engraved on my mind for the best part of 50 years as the ...

It’s always good to read a full and searching essay on the durable interest of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” such as the one Merve Emre recently published (Books, December 23rd).