Such is the legend of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” It may be an apocryphal story but feels true to the poem; it was as if God had filled the poet to the brim, until he had to be drained by ...

“Satan Calling Up His Legions,” by William Blake, 1807Credit...William Blake drawing in Milton's "Paradise Lost" via Morgan Library Supported by By Lauren Christensen When the Restoration ende ...

Milton may have been dismayed at the failure to create a republic, but at least it gave him time to write Paradise Lost. First published in 1667, Paradise Lost gave the modern age its most famous ...

The history of Paradise Lost’s readership through the centuries, argues the academic Orlando Reade in an admirably lucid new book, What in Me Is Dark, is one of revolution, subversion ...