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 ...

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 ...

There are many reasons to read Milton’s poem, whose10,565 lines are rich in language, texture and theology. I’d encourage anyone to read it, or even just to dip into passages every now and then.

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 ...

Some 350 years ago, Milton's epic chronicled the Fall of Man, wrought by the red fruit. Except that it might've been a fig or peach or pear. An ancient Roman made a pun – and the apple myth was ...

In Paradise Lost, 1667, John Milton addresses the question of why in a poem of 12,000 lines divided into twelve books. For Milton, the fall of man begins with the more interesting tale of the fall ...

Today, Milton is best known for “Paradise Lost.” Long before writing that epic poem about the fall of man, however, he was a polemicist who participated in the political controversies of his day.

Three hundred and fifty years ago, the poet John Milton wrote one of the greatest characters in all of British literature: Lucifer, the antagonist of the epic poem Paradise Lost.Feared by Puritans ...