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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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” ...

WAS JOHN MILTON a student of the occult? I had forgotten just how extensive his grasp of demonology was until the publication of a new edition of “Paradise Lost” (Modern Library: 424 pp., $11 ...