John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and ...

Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai ...

Doubtless because of the link between what John Milton called the “Blest Pair ... The opening of Book Two of Paradise Lost ...

Paradise Lost' is an epic poem written by the 17th century English author John Milton. The poem relates the biblical tale of the Fall of Man, covering the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen ...

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 ...

Rysbrack was the statuary who cut it. In his 1742 history of the Abbey J. Crull quotes the verses by John Dryden, usually given below Milton's picture in Paradise Lost, which were not inscribed on the ...

That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.