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

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 ...

Take us back, little time machine, with your bleepings and your flashings; take us back to crusty old London in the late 1650s, so we can clap the electrodes onto the sleeping head of blind John ...

John Milton And His Money Dec 09, 2008, 12:00am EST Jul 13, 2012, 04:07pm EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old. John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost, is 400 years old today.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. While still a student at Cambridge, Milton experienced “a deep and durable conviction that he was destined to write,” Joe Moshenska writes in “Making Darkness Light.” ...

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 ...