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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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“‘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 ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 163 (Sale info: $150.00). [Price noted by a contemporary hand.] 1859. Second Exhibition in New York of Paintings, the contribution of Artists of the French & ...