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 ...

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 ...

JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL) – Students and faculty gathered at East Tennessee State University on Thursday to read all 10,000 lines of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The professor who organized the event, ...

News that Hollywood is to make the first feature film of Milton’s epic “Paradise Lost” fills me with mixed feelings: eager anticipation and foreboding. If the last such blockbuster, “Troy,” is ...

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

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. At least two popular books ...