Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

In dramatising Lucifer’s rebellion against God, his battalions of angels being hurled into hell, Satan’s defiant rise, the ...

John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and ...

Toward the end of John Milton's epic poem, written after England's civil war, the angel Michael gives Adam a vision of the future, and it is not a happy one. Thanks to the Fall, Michael tells Adam ...

WIFE TO MR. MILTON—Robert Graves —Creative Age Press ($2.75).Breathing heavily, his Bible under his arm, Poet John Milton climbed into the bridal bed. He read his "numb and stark" ...