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” ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...