John Milton, by then completely blind, composed his epic poem by dictation. “Satan Calling Up His Legions,” by William Blake, 1807Credit...William Blake drawing in Milton's "Paradise Lost" via Morgan ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Mr. Jacobs, a literary critic and professor at Baylor, has written a “biography” of “Paradise Lost”: a concise, lively and ...

A new book about John Milton and “Paradise Lost” traces the 17th-century epic’s influence and relevance through the ages. By Ed Simon Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English ...

Alan Jacobs clarifies centuries of debate over John Milton’s epic retelling of the Fall. Christian life is rooted in a story with a specific plot. It begins with God’s creation of the world, builds ...

The reader of “Paradise Lost” encounters the Garden of Eden at the same time that Satan does. Having leapt over the garden wall, Milton’s athletic antihero flies up into a tree to survey his new ...

One of the more intriguing projects James Gunn announced for his new DCU is a series called Paradise Lost, a sort of Game of Thrones-style series about the political turmoil in the Amazon nation of ...