At Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, once a medieval deer park, the gardens were given shaggy hills, mazy streams and a hermitage inscribed with Milton’s poetry. Paradise Lost anticipated another ...

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 ...

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 ...

Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...

One thought rattled around my head all night while watching this radical take on Paradise Lost: how would God react to all of ...

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. Jefferson’s interest ...

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

Read our review of Paradise Lost at Battersea Arts Centre. Lost Dog’s clever, funny reimagining of Milton’s poem boasts a ...

God’s personal but not necessarily profound take on the novel from Lucifer’s perspective. This revival production has an ...