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

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 ...

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 ...

Paradise Lost. But Milton had completely lost faith in his countrymen, who made the wrong choice, preferring “easy servitude” ...

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 ...

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.

This time Mortal Fools is taking on the “Odyssey,” a work attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer which probably first ...

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