The English poet John Milton grappled with this question in his famous epic, Paradise Lost, first published in 1667. And Alan ...

John Milton, the greatest English poet of the 17th century, ... Milton’s benchmark for when a book becomes a “malefactor” is a little unclear. Books, he says, ...

John Milton citing Spenser on the recent history of Ireland in his 1587 edition of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles. ... But while Milton's own books continue to be widely read and studied, ...

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 ...

Such is the legend of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” It may be an apocryphal story but feels true to the poem; it was as if God had filled the poet to the brim, until he had to be drained by ...

John Milton’s handwritten Prologue to “Romeo and Juliet” appears in the Philadelphia Free Library’s copy of the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.