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 ...

Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...

Milton’s friend John Evelyn designed an ambitious ... and his horticultural visions followed As Paradise Lost became a classic, landscaping fashion increasingly seemed to follow its vision.

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

Paradise Lost' is an epic poem written by the 17th century English author John Milton. The poem relates the biblical tale of the Fall of Man, covering the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 30 passages that Jefferson recorded, Orlando Reade notes, derive from John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” including 11 that center on the figure of Satan. Jefferson’s interest ...

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 ...