The English poet John Milton grappled with this question in his famous epic, Paradise Lost, first published in 1667. And Alan ...

John Crace: John Milton, whose 400th birthday is celebrated this year, is responsible for introducing some 630 words to the English language, making him the country's greatest neologist, ahead of ...

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics dislike Milton for his anti-Catholicism, Anglicans dislike him for his ...

Milton is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, but he also wrote many other poems and prose; references to Holinshed's Chronicles abound in the latter, including Of Reformation (1641), The ...

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

Next week is the 400th anniversary of John Milton's birth. Epic poet, champion of freedom, attack-dog for the English republic, he still divides readers. Boyd Tonkin looks at his legacy ...

Bridging Milton’s double trajectory — as both a poet and a political and religious thinker — is one of the challenges a biographer must address. Moshenska does so in two ways. His first and ...

8 New Books Coming in December A Booker Prize finalist based on a true story, essays from Siri Hustvedt, an imaginative biography of John Milton and more.

In Book Eight of the poem, Adam converses with the angel Raphael and dares to ask if angels express their love bodily as he and Eve do. But the angel (as Milton would have it) coyly refuses Adam a ...