Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

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

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it ‘longer than it is.’ But ‘Paradise Lost’ reshaped English literature.

Armando Iannucci journeys through Milton's life and his great poem Paradise Lost.

Translating Milton into Movement Take a trip across town, time and space to the beginning of the Universe, the creation of Heaven and Earth and the underbelly of Hell.

Paradise Lost is an epic poem written in the 17th century by John Milton. It is a tale about Satan, his fall from Heaven, and his rebellion against God. Paradise Lost discusses the nuances in ...

What’s So ‘American’ About John Milton’s Lucifer? The fallen archangel and antagonist of the epic poem Paradise Lost was a self-made, individualistic iconoclast.

Milton hits him with a completely unnecessary long-lost relative in book two. Satan’s flitting around hell, trying to find a way to heaven (hint: look up!) and he manages to find the door.

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 ...