It’s John Milton ... Milton responded to the collapse of his political hopes by retreating from the public arena and concentrating on finishing his masterpiece, Paradise Lost.

Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai ...

John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and ...

Reade finds himself teaching Paradise Lost as part of a literature class in a state prison in Newark. He concludes his book, in what is surely one of the greatest affirmations of Milton’s ...

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Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the four ... and courage never to submit or yield” (Paradise Lost, book I, ll. 106–108). Yet there is the problem of making hell a livable place.

Such is the legend of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost ... In the first two books of “Paradise Lost,” Satan politicizes his wounded pride, using all his powers of persuasiveness to build ...

It’s John Milton ... Milton responded to the collapse of his political hopes by retreating from the public arena and concentrating on finishing his masterpiece, Paradise Lost.