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

Merve Emre reviews “What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost,” by the British academic Orlando Reade, which traces John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers ...

Katie Kadue reviews “The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise,” a book about gardening in the shadow of Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” by Olivia Laing.