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.

Han Kang received the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature for her “poetic and experimental style” that made her “an innovator in contemporary prose.” She is the first South Korean author and just the 18th ...

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

The Grand Jury of Middlesex County Court, in England, was presented with a work that corrupted public morals to such an ...

Proverbs are aphorisms that impart wisdom, advise good, and express deep, meaningful truths about the universe. Proverbs for ...

This year marks the 350th anniversary of John Milton’s death and the printing ... Here’s a book-length poem about poetic innovation, about the ways, over millenniums, that poets and audiences ...

The Songs of the Jabberwock – as the book is called when seen in reflection – includes one of the most famous nonsense poems of all ... volumes range from John Milton’s envisioned epic ...

With the release of A Complete Unknown, a new Bob Dylan mania is emerging: here are ten things you don’t know about the ...

The savagery of the conflict has been grotesque and remained so up to the last moment, with 101 people in Gaza, including 27 ...

This time Mortal Fools is taking on the “Odyssey,” a work attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer which probably first ...

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