John Milton, the greatest English poet of the 17th century, was also the great champion of press freedom, and “Areopagitica“ (1644), his impassioned plea for “unlicensed printing,” begins ...

Devlin Schneider, 19, of Lake Milton, Ohio, was sentenced to time served after pleading guilty to failure to comply with the order of a police officer and obstructing official business for a chase ...

Dec. 9 is Milton's 400th birthday, which is as good a time as any to note that John Milton has been, more than anyone but Shakespeare, an inspiration and a rival to later poets.

John Milton's handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet. The discovery makes this ...

Nobody knows why John Milton’s first wife left him in 1642 after only a few weeks of marriage. Perhaps the fact that the 33-year-old writer was twice the age of Mary Powell had something to do ...

John Milton Was Born 405 Years Ago Today. Here's Why He Still Matters. Hulton Archive/Getty Images "John Milton And His Poetry" October 21, 1931.

John Milton becomes a large part of ‘Big Sky’ Season 2. Now that Wolf and Ronald are both dead in Big Sky, John Milton becomes a significant part of the storyline for season 2.

It’s John Milton’s time now. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and afterward, Shakespeare was frequently invoked to help make sense of the Trump phenomenon. After Trump lost the ...

John Milton Muddles Through. Some people call this a critical, as opposed to a creative, age. I doubt whether it is either. Certainly so many thousands of professed poets write and publish that a ...

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 ...

Surely that wasn’t John Milton’s handwriting? Scott-Warren jumped up, ran to the library and began comparing the photos with Cambridge copies of Milton’s scribblings.

Fr. John Milton, CSV, 92, a Viatorian priest for 65 years and founding faculty member of Saint Viator High School in Arlington Heights died Jan. 24, 2022. He was born Oct. 28, 1929 in Chicago, the … ...