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 ...

This month marks 350 years since John Milton sold his publisher the copyright of Paradise Lost for the sum of five pounds. His great work dramatizes the oldest story in the Bible, whose principal ...

It’s John Milton’s time now. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and afterward, Shakespeare was frequently invoked to help make sense of the Trump phenomenon. After Trump lost the 2020 ...

It’s always good to read a full and searching essay on the durable interest of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” such as the one Merve Emre recently published (Books, December 23rd). However, when Emre ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Mr. Jacobs, a literary critic and professor at Baylor, has written a “biography” of “Paradise Lost”: a concise, lively and ...

I posed this question to the 12 students in my class on John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost.” Lots of sparkling answers came. It was a wonderful group. At the end, a young woman named Jessica ...

BLOOMINGTON — For 10 hours on Saturday, inside the Ames Library at Illinois Wesleyan University, a dozen or so students, scholars and literature lovers read all 10,000-plus lines of "Paradise Lost." ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. II (Sale info: To Be Distributed). "In silence and with darkness compassed round, he wrote his immortal song, which found 'fit audience, though few.'" [P. 15 ...

“‘Paradise Lost’ is, surely, the greatest poem in English,” Alan Jacobs declares in his book on John Milton’s masterpiece, “but it is not lovable.” Few who know the poem would disagree with either ...