John Milton, the greatest English poet of the 17th century, was also the great champion of press freedom, and "Areopagitica" (1644), his impassioned plea for "unlicensed printing," begins every ...

WAS JOHN MILTON a student of the occult? I had forgotten just how extensive his grasp of demonology was until the publication of a new edition of “Paradise Lost” (Modern Library: 424 pp., $11 ...

John Milton Earle (1894-1874) must be spinning in his grave. The man who devoted his whole career to helping the unfortunate and exploited of society is now being labeled as a politically incorrect… ...

Milton laid the poem aside for a few days, perhaps, while he visited London to see whether Johnson’s learned socks were on and, when he returned, did not notice the mistake.

By now in his 50s, blind and ailing, Milton composed “Paradise Lost” aloud, in bed or (per witnesses) “leaning backward obliquely in an easy chair, with his leg flung over the elbow of it ...

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, Fla. -- Earlier this ... Family of man discovered in unmarked grave at Milton cemetery expresses concern. by WEAR Staff. Wed, January 25th 2023 at 3:29 PM. Updated Thu, January 26th 2023 ...

One of Britain's greatest literary figures lived in Berkshire. The people of Horton have been celebrating Milton's 400th anniversary. Learn more about Milton: poet, polemicist and inventor of the ...

I cannot set so light by all the invention, the art, the wit, the grave and solid judgment which is in England, as that it can be comprehended in any twenty capacities how good soever, much less ...