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 ...

The 17th-century epic gave the modern age its most famous vision of Eden but, argues the author of a new book, the poem’s influence on landscape and garden design can still be seen today ...

M ilton’s Paradise Lost is one of the four great epic works of the Western world, vying with Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Inferno, and Goethe’s Faust for the supremacy. Only these four in ...

Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai ...

Doubtless because of the link between what John Milton called the “Blest Pair ... The opening of Book Two of Paradise Lost has been engraved on my mind for the best part of 50 years as the ...

Rysbrack was the statuary who cut it. In his 1742 history of the Abbey J. Crull quotes the verses by John Dryden, usually given below Milton's picture in Paradise Lost, which were not inscribed on the ...

The Department of English scholars will be celebrating the astronomical event by staging a day-long, outdoor marathon reading of John Milton's epic poem, "Paradise Lost" − all 10,000-plus lines ...

That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.