Columbia University is making a landmark in American scholarship and a monument to a great poet’s fame. Under the general editorship of Frank Allen Patterson, a staff of editors consisting of ...

John Milton is widely considered to be one of the greatest English poets who ever lived—just ask such luminaries as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Jonson, and Voltaire, who once declared, "Milton ...

Great art is great not because it enters an academic curriculum, and neither is greatness affirmed by the awarding of prizes or titles. But great is not necessarily a vague term. It can indicate work ...

The 17th century author of “Paradise Lost” was a big fan of Shakespeare. The Free Library of Philadelphia is discovered to have his personal copy. A copy of a nearly 400-year old folio of plays by ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Fiona Sampson MAKING DARKNESS LIGHT A Life of John Milton By Joe Moshenska Literary biography is ...

Joe Moshenska’s new biography of poet John Milton, “Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton,” is a strange but captivating, book. The author draws his reader, not only into the life and world of ...

Some people call this a critical, as opposed to a creative, age. I doubt whether it is either. Certainly so many thousands of professed poets write and publish that a great need has arisen for critics ...

That Ida Fasel finished writing the last of her 16 books at age 102 was an accomplishment in its own right. That the book was a collection of poems and essays on John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost ...

William Wordsworth had a habit of comparing himself to—and even being in competition with—John Milton. Once Wordsworth asked a friend what he thought was the greatest elegy of the English language.

MILTON — Hilaire Belloc — Lippincott ($4). MILTON — Rose Macaulay — Harper ($2). John Milton is no longer biographical news. Unlike Shakespeare’s, his life has no tantalizingly mysterious blind spots.