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 ...

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 ...

Dec. 9 marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Milton, and fans around the world are celebrating with literary events, exhibits and readings of his epic poem Paradise Lost. At Cambridge ...

This month's column is my third in a series of a dozen this year on poetry from the Renaissance to the present. First we looked at Philip Sidney, then George Herbert. Now let's turn to John 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 ...

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 ...

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.

I wouldn’t recommend John Milton’s sacred epics, or even his short poems, to a newcomer to the English language. The poetry of Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Blake, and Emily Dickinson share his ...

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.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — If you love books, you can now go check out an incredible piece of history at the Burton Barr Library in Phoenix! A team of researchers, including Arizona State University ...

As a young man, John Milton wrote a friend: "Do you ask what I am meditating? By the help of Heaven, an immortality of fame." Not many can actually achieve such a goal, but Milton did. Next to William ...