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Rocky Mountain High by John Denver is a peaceful song about nature and change. This page covers its lyrics, message, and place in his music career.

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

The celebration of the birth of John Milton by the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow of London, almost within whose shadow the poet was born three centuries ago, could not have been more sincere or ...

The Poet And Right Reason Milton’s concept of right reason, a recurrent theme throughout his prose and poetry, helps to illuminate his synthesis of classics and Scripture.

When I was younger and discovering classical music, I would occasionally hear a piece so magnificent, it would render me speechless. Doubtless because of the link between what John Milton called the ...

Sophia hasn’t shared the script with him and he has avoided reviews, so he is unaware that the play is about him, that it will open with a 10-minute sex scene featuring a look-alike of a woman he ...

The village of Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire where John Milton penned his epic poem Paradise Lost has turned into an 'open sewer'.

Milton laid the poem aside for a few days, perhaps, while he visited London to see whether Johnson’s learned socks were on and, when he returned, did not notice the mistake.

Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton Poet crossed out one racy passage, deeming it "an unbecom [ing] tale for a hist [ory]" ...