Today's Quote of the Day story reflects on John Milton’s powerful line from Paradise Lost about the mind’s ability to shape reality. The piece explains how our thoughts can turn the same situation ...

I n a recent skirmish in the current war on woke, John Milton’s Paradise Lost was caught in the crossfire. In December 2024, the scholar Orlando Reade’s book on the “revolutionary afterlife” of Milton ...

John Milton, by then completely blind, composed his epic poem by dictation. “Satan Calling Up His Legions,” by William Blake, 1807Credit...William Blake drawing in Milton's "Paradise Lost" via Morgan ...

In his “biography” of Paradise Lost, which is part of Princeton University Press’s excellent Lives of Great Religious Books series, Alan Jacobs traces Johnson’s and others’ responses to Milton and his ...

It is hard not to like Satan. He is Western culture’s original rebel, the bad boy who dared to defy the authority of God. He also has the best lines. “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n,” ...

Alan Jacobs clarifies centuries of debate over John Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall. Christian life is rooted in a story with a specific plot. It begins with God’s creation of the world, builds ...

Joe Moshenska’s new biography of poet John Milton, “Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton,” is a strange but captivating, book. The author draws his reader, not only into the life and world of ...