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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Milton may personify the pale, male and stale hegemony of the English poetic tradition, but the story of his poem is one of new ways of thinking, of new societies being forged, of old orders ...

The poet would sit impatiently, one leg flung over the arm of his chair, and cry, “I want to be milked!” Such is the legend of John Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” It may be an apocryphal ...