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, Paradise Lost, gives us the natural scope of the story. So does the deliberate start in the middle of the action. Sorry to say it, but this is Satan’s show.

The greatest epic poem in the English language, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, has divided critics – but its influence on English literature is second only to Shakespeare’s.

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 ...

In Paradise Lost, 1667, John Milton addresses the question of why in a poem of 12,000 lines divided into twelve books. For Milton, the fall of man begins with the more interesting tale of the fall ...

John Milton, by then completely blind, composed his epic poem by dictation. “Satan Calling Up His Legions,” by William Blake, 1807Credit...William Blake drawing in Milton's "Paradise Lost" via ...

This month marks 350 years since John Milton sold his publisher the copyright of Paradise Lost for the sum of five pounds. His great work dramatizes the oldest story in the Bible, whose principal ...

JOHN MILTON, THE FIFTH governor of Florida, bore a distinguished name, that of the celebrated English poet who wrote the epic, Paradise Lost.Governor Milton, a direct descendant of the poet’s ...

There are many reasons to read Milton’s poem, whose10,565 lines are rich in language, texture and theology. I’d encourage anyone to read it, or even just to dip into passages every now and then.