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 ...

John Milton wrote Paradise Lost in 1667. Orlando Reade, author of a new book on the poem’s legacy, spoke to Judy Cox.

It’s John Milton’s time now ... the public arena and concentrating on finishing his masterpiece, Paradise Lost. But Milton ...

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 ...

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 ...

Readers respond to Merve Emre’s piece about “Paradise Lost” and Jennifer Wilson’s review of “More Than Pretty Boxes,” a book about professional organizing.

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 ...

John Milton was incredibly learned ... handling of the relation between classical learning and the Bible comes in Paradise Regained; but fortunately Milton also left his readers a great deal ...

That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.