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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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Towards the conclusion of Republic, Alice Hunt’s chronicle of a tempestuous 17th-century experiment with theological ...