Poet John Milton turns 405 today. Here's Why He Still Matters. Skip Navigation ... In Milton's poetry from first to last there is a steady growth of the personifying power, ...

John Milton, the greatest English poet of the 17th century, was also the great champion of press freedom, and “Areopagitica“ (1644), his impassioned plea for “unlicensed printing,” begins ...

John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost, is 400 years old today. His great poem is studied in colleges all over the English-speaking world, and his ideals have become deeply rooted, not least in ...

Dates from 1629 to 1631 have been proposed for this poem in the absence of any evidence. Whenever Milton wrote this aubade or dawn song, it is a small gem.It hearkens back to Elizabethan songs ...

A little-known poem has been retrieved from the Oxford University archives, which appears to reveal a 17th century attempt to besmirch the reputation of John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost.

This month's column is my third in a series of a dozen this year on poetry from the Renaissance to the present. First we looked at Philip Sidney, then George Herbert. Now let's turn to John Milton ...

Dec. 9 is Milton's 400th birthday, which is as good a time as any to note that John Milton has been, more than anyone but Shakespeare, an inspiration and a rival to later poets.

Next week is the 400th anniversary of John Milton's birth. Epic poet, champion of freedom, attack-dog for the English republic, he still divides readers. Boyd Tonkin looks at his legacy ...

Dec. 9 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton, and fans around the world are celebrating with literary events, exhibits and readings of his epic poem Paradise Lost.. At Cambridge ...

Without him nothing would be terrific, nobody would be sensuous, and we would never have gone into space. Those three words are among the many still in use that were invented by John Milton ...

MILTON HONORED AS PULPIT'S POET; Famous Clergymen and Men of Letters Unite in Birthday Celebration. BEN GREET RECITES POEMS Bishop Greer Presides and the Rev. Percy Grant and the Messrs. Butler, ...

Today’s entry in the Sun’s Week of Sonnets may have begun life as a complaint about a rejected divorce petition, but John Milton (1608 –1674) always has bigger fish to fry. And in “Sonnet 12” ...