Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

Review by Dana Gioia Read the review Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao.

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics ...

It’s John Milton’s time now. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and afterward, Shakespeare was frequently invoked to help make sense of the Trump phenomenon.

While most weeks are devoted to new releases or Booker longlisters, others, like this one, begin with a forgotten 82-year-old ...

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 ...

John Milton Muddles Through. 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 ...

John Milton's handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet. The discovery makes this ...

HAY, JOHN MILTON (8 Oct. 1838-1 July 1905), diplomat, statesman, U.S. secretary of state, and historian, was born in Salem, Ind., to Dr. Charley and Helen Leonard Hay. He graduated from Brown ...

John Milton Young of Bradenton, FL, born October 3, 1932 in Decatur, IL, son of Neil Young and Alvene (Price) Young died peacefully on October 20, 2024. John’s two siblings, ...