In dramatising Lucifer’s rebellion against God, his battalions of angels being hurled into hell, Satan’s defiant rise, the ...

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

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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.

John Milton lived for the last part of his life at Artillery Walk (now Bunhill Row, near the Barbican), where he composed much of his epic poem Paradise Lost.

— John Milton, “Paradise Lost” “Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” — George Bernard Shaw "When duty calls, that is when character counts." — William Safire ...

He also has the best lines. “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n,” Satan declares in “Paradise Lost”, an epic poem by John Milton. God, by contrast, says boring things about ...

Milton may have shaped his poem’s rebellious ideas about freedom around the unquestioned primacy of a Christian God, but as Reade points out, Paradise Lost today speaks to an era in which one ...