It’s John Milton’s time now. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and afterward, Shakespeare was frequently invoked to help make sense of the Trump phenomenon. After Trump lost the 2020 ...

Erin Shields’ Paradise Lost reinvents John Milton’s epic poem through a bold, contemporary lens. Satan, cast out of Heaven, ...

JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL) – Students and faculty gathered at East Tennessee State University on Thursday to read all 10,000 lines of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The professor who organized the event, ...

A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages. By Ed Simon How Americans learned to root for the dark side — from the Joker ...

Nobody knows why John Milton’s first wife left him in 1642 after only a few weeks of marriage. Perhaps the fact that the 33-year-old writer was twice the age of Mary Powell had something to do with it ...

Salandra, it is true, is named among the writers of sacred tragedies in Todd’s Milton (1809, vol. ii, p. 244), and also by Hayley, but neither of them had the curiosity, or the opportunity, to examine ...