John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

The title page of “Paradise Lost.” Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. It’s John Milton’s time now. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and afterward, Shakespeare was ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it ‘longer than it is.’ But ‘Paradise Lost’ reshaped English literature.

Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the four great epic works of the Western world, vying with Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Inferno, and Goethe’s Faust for the ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes Claire Allfree. Sunday 10 November 2024 06:00 GMT.

Nearly 30 passages that Jefferson recorded, Orlando Reade notes, derive from John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” including 11 that center on the figure of Satan.

A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages.