John Milton is no longer biographical news ... Readers who know that Hilaire Belloc is himself a poet, a lusty controversialist and a belligerent Roman Catholic, anticipated some pyrotechnic ...

Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from the work.

John Milton, poet and writer, was born in London on 9th December 1608, a son of composer John Milton (d.1647) and his wife Sara (Jeffrey). He was educated at St Paul's School and Christ's College, ...

Experts have unearthed handwritten annotations made by the English poet They found he crossed out a lewd anecdote and dismissed it as inappropriate His work, Paradise Lost, is thought to be one of ...

Doubtless because of the link between what John Milton called the “Blest Pair of Sirens…Voice and Verse”, a similar effect occurred when I read certain lines of poetry. It was Milton himself ...

George Frederic Handel can be considered one of the greatest composers of all time based simply on his “Messiah.” But, in ...

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the ...

Nearly 30 passages that Jefferson recorded, Orlando Reade notes, derive from John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” including 11 that center on the figure of Satan. Jefferson’s interest ...

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.