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

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 ...

John Milton, by then completely blind, composed his epic poem by dictation. “Satan Calling Up His Legions,” by William Blake, 1807Credit...William Blake drawing in Milton's "Paradise Lost" via Morgan ...

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 2020 ...

JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL) – Students and faculty gathered at East Tennessee State University on Thursday to read all 10,000 lines of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The professor who organized the event, ...

Yes, it’s a great achievement of English literature. Yes, it’s a deep work of spiritual belief and should be given due consideration. And yet, for some reason, Paradise Lost stumbles over the same ...

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This month marks 350 years since John Milton sold his publisher the copyright of Paradise Lost for the sum of five pounds. His great work dramatizes the oldest story in the Bible, whose principal ...

The Used dropped the details for their forthcoming album ‘Heartwork’ on Feb. 6. The record is a highly anticipated followup to 2017’s The Canyon. Previously, the only news we had regarding new music ...

(RNS) — In its effort to comply with a new state rule in Florida that bans sexual content in books in public schools, one Florida county last month decided to err on the side of caution and require ...