The celebration of the birth of John Milton by the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow of London, almost within whose shadow the poet was born three centuries ago, could not have been more sincere or ...

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 ...

When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith ...

John Milton, by then completely blind, composed his epic poem by dictation. By Lauren Christensen “Making Darkness Light,” a new portrait of John Milton by the Oxford scholar Joe Moshenska ...

He also has the best lines. “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n,” Satan declares in “Paradise Lost”, an epic poem by John Milton. God, by contrast, says boring things about ...

So the writer we need to turn to is not William Shakespeare, but John Milton. Milton wanted to write a great epic poem (about what he wasn’t sure). But as England slid into civil war ...

WIFE TO MR. MILTON—Robert Graves —Creative Age Press ($2.75). Breathing heavily, his Bible under his arm, Poet John Milton climbed into the bridal bed. He read his “numb and stark” bride ...