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 ...

New research published by the University of Exeter has revealed that the Queen drew upon John Milton's depiction of Adam and Eve in his 17th century poem in her speech at Banqueting House.

An annotation in the left margin has been identified as having been written by English poet, John Milton Handwritten notes by Paradise Lost poet John Milton have been identified in a copy of a ...

John Milton, poet and writer, was born in London on 9th December 1608, a son of composer John Milton (d.1647) and his wife Sara (Jeffrey). He was educated at St Paul's School and Christ's College, ...

So the writer we need to turn to is not William Shakespeare, but John Milton. Milton wanted to write a great epic poem (about ...

When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith ...

John Milton wrote Paradise Lost in 1667. Orlando Reade, author of a new book on the poem’s legacy, spoke to Judy Cox.

He also has the best lines. “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n,” Satan declares in “Paradise Lost”, an epic poem by John Milton. God, by contrast, says boring things about ...

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

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For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.