The 17th century author of “Paradise Lost” was a big fan of Shakespeare. The Free Library of Philadelphia is discovered to have his personal copy. A copy of a nearly 400-year old folio of plays by ...
John Milton is widely considered to be one of the greatest English poets who ever lived—just ask such luminaries as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Jonson, and Voltaire, who once declared, "Milton ...
MILTON — Hilaire Belloc — Lippincott ($4). MILTON — Rose Macaulay — Harper ($2). John Milton is no longer biographical news. Unlike Shakespeare’s, his life has no tantalizingly mysterious blind spots.
I n a recent skirmish in the current war on woke, John Milton’s Paradise Lost was caught in the crossfire. In December 2024, the scholar Orlando Reade’s book on the “revolutionary afterlife” of Milton ...
On t.p. verso: Riverside, Cambridge : Stereotyped and printed by Henry O. Houghton. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...
IF from Hilaire Belloc, the great Catholic apologist, we hardly expect a laudatory portrait of an arch-heretic, we are agreeably surprised in Milton (Lippincott, $4.00) at his fairness. Milton the man ...
A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages. By Ed Simon How Americans learned to root for the dark side — from the Joker ...
Who best qualifies for the position of U. S. Poet? New England’s Ralph Waldo Emerson and Long Island’s Walt Whitman are doubtless the foremost candidates, with a few critics ranking California’s ...
John Milton, by then completely blind, composed his epic poem by dictation. By Lauren Christensen “Making Darkness Light,” a new portrait of John Milton by the Oxford scholar Joe Moshenska, presents ...
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