Teaching literature is an exercise in freedom. Now ideological demands from the right are putting it in danger.

JOHN MILTON, THE FIFTH governor of Florida, bore a distinguished name, that of the celebrated English poet who wrote the epic, Paradise Lost.Governor Milton, a direct descendant of the poet’s ...

The title, Paradise Lost, gives us the natural scope of the story. So does the deliberate start in the middle of the action. Sorry to say it, but this is Satan’s show.

When we first meet Adam and Eve in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, they live in a perfect world. But by the end, they're expelled into one that is marked by exile, war, illness and death.

This month marks 350 years since John Milton sold his publisher the copyright of Paradise Lost for the sum of five pounds. His great work dramatizes the oldest story in the Bible, whose principal ...

John Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’ (1644) ... Today, Milton is best known for “Paradise Lost.” Long before writing that epic poem about the fall of man, however, ...

This is an excerpt from Chapman's award-winning essay on her experiences teaching inmates at Alabama's Donaldson prison. Two or three dozen inmates, clad in white coveralls, filter into the prison’s ...

When John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost,” (1667) his Satan famously stated, “better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” Satan was the villain of the piece, abandoning the Good and the ...

SYDNEY — Aussie helmer Alex Proyas (”I, Robot”, ”Knowing”) will bring his new film ”Paradise Lost”, based on the John Milton poem, to film in and around Sydney it was announced on ...

This month marks 350 years since John Milton sold his publisher the copyright of Paradise Lost for the sum of five pounds. His great work dramatizes the oldest story in the Bible, whose principal ...